Vegetable Pulao

Vegetable Pulao:

Pulao is a blend of rice and vegetables and is a healthy dish as it includes a variety of vegetables. It can be prepared with no big trouble and can be served with raita and curry.

Ingredients:

• Basmati Rice: 3 cups
• Medium sized carrots: 2
• Green beans: 20
• Peas: 1cup
• Green onions: 2 bunches
• Cardamom: 6
• Cloves: 5
• Cinnamon stick: 4”
• Jeera/cumin seeds: 1 teaspoon
• Small green chilies: 6
• Oil: 3 teaspoons
• Salt for taste
• Water: 4 ½ cups

Preparation:

• Cut Green beans, carrots and green onions into very tiny pieces and slit green chilies vertically. Wash rice and keep it aside.
• In a deep frying pan or deep sauce pan, heat 3 teaspoons of oil and add cardamom, cloves, cinnamon stick, jeera/cumin seeds and fry them. When they start to turn light brown in color, add the green chilies, and cut vegetables. Fry for 2 minutes.
• Add the washed rice to the vegetables and add water and salt to it. Now transfer the whole contents of the pan into an electric rice cooker and let it cook.
• Mouth-watering vegetable pulav is ready to be served. Take pleasure in it with raita or curry.

Warning:

• Add salt and green chilies according to your taste.
• Add the water according to the directions of the label of the rice variety you are using.

Alterations:

• Add onions in place of green onions to make it taste different.
• Add cashew nuts to make to tastier.
• Cook in deep sauce pan or pressure cooker if you don’t have a rice cooker.
• Frozen mixed vegetables can be used instead of fresh vegetables in order to reduce the preparation time.