Name: Flavoured Pulao Rice
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups Good quality Parboiled Rice; 4 long French beans; 1 no Capsicum (optional); 3 - Green Peas/Corn or both; 1 no Cauliflower (cut it into florets, medium); 2 nos Carrots (diced); 1 no Onion (medium); Salt (As reqd); 1/2 tsp Sugar; Fried Paneer (about 12 small cubes); 3 cups Water; 4 tbsp Ghee; 3 - Roasted peanuts; 1 big/medium Golden brown fried onion; 2 tbsp Fried grated coconut; 1/2 tsp Fried fennel seeds (Perinjeerakam); 2 - Crushed ginger & garlic; 1 tsp Powdered cinnamon (Karugapatta); 1 tbsp Powdered cardamom & sugar mixture (Elakka); 1 tsp Bay leaves (Biriyani leaf); 1 no Geen chilly; 1 no Fried Red chilly; 1/2 tsp Coriander leaves; 2 leaves Curry leaves

Flavoured Pulao Rice

A nice Pulao recipe which tastes really good & different

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Cuisine American

Servings people

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups Good quality Parboiled Rice
4 long French beans
1 no Capsicum optional
3 - Green Peas/Corn or both
1 no Cauliflower cut it into florets, medium
2 nos Carrots diced
1 no Onion medium
Salt As reqd
1/2 tsp Sugar
Fried Paneer about 12 small cubes
3 cups Water
4 tbsp Ghee

For masala paste:-

3 - Roasted peanuts
1 big/medium Golden brown fried onion
2 tbsp Fried grated coconut
1/2 tsp Fried fennel seeds Perinjeerakam
2 - Crushed ginger & garlic
1 tsp Powdered cinnamon Karugapatta
1 tbsp Powdered cardamom & sugar mixture Elakka
1 tsp Bay leaves Biriyani leaf
1 no Geen chilly
1 no Fried Red chilly
1/2 tsp Coriander leaves
2 leaves Curry leaves

Instructions

Cook rice separately in a pressure cooker by adding along a tbsp of oil and 1/2 tsp of salt.
:- Make sure u don`t overcook.
After u have made the cooker stove off, take the cooked rice out & add extra fresh water to it.
Drain it & keep aside.
Make the masala paste by mashing the ingredients of masala paste in a mixer grinder to a smooth paste.
Sprinkle water while mashing if reqd.
Heat 2 tbsp of ghee in a non stick pan.
Fry the sliced onion.
Add the above vegetables & fry.
:- You can spray some water in between so as to cook well.
Once cooked, add 2 more tbsp of ghee.
Add the masala paste & stir fry along with the vegtables.
Add more ghee & spray water if reqd.
:- Remember it should not be watery.
Cover & cook for 5 mins in simmed stove.
Once vegetables are cooked, take the rice & pour above the cooked vegetables.
Slowly mix it with a fork so that rice is not cut.
:- U may add some biriyani masala powder too along with the masala paste if u feel that enough flavour is not there.

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Flavoured Pulao Rice