Veg pulav

Ive been eating veg pulav all my life. My mom makes the best pulav. Evertime we go home we ask her to make us .Starting from lunch to dinner we can never get off from it and end up with bulging stomachs. There are many variants for veg pulav with different spices added. This is the most simple one among them.

Its quite easy to make and dosent require more time to stay in kitchen.Thats the one big reason we've been making it frequently. With office work to do ,household chores to complete and just from a long day of office its very tiring to stay in kitchen for long hours and cook up somthing good. For this just put all the ingredients and wait for the aroma while relaxing.Its quite healthy too (if too much oil or ghee isnt used) coz it contains lots of vegetables. You can add as many vegetables as you like.

Ingredients:

Potato -2
Carrots -2
Baby corn - 6
beans - 10

garlic - 4 finely chopped
cinnamom, cardamom, Bay leaf, cloves, star anise - each one
ginger - 1 small finely chopped
green chillies - 2 slit
onions - 2
ghee/oil - 3 tbspn

rice - 1 cup
water -2 cups

salt to taste

Procedure:

take a handi add oil/ghee. once heated add the spices, garlic,ginger, green chillies. add onions and fry till transluscent. add the vegetables and saute it for 5 mins.

add rice ,water and salt and cook for 20 mins.

add raitha or kurma to make it more delicious

Beetroot Pulav

I love the color thats associated with cooking beetroot.Everydish made with it gives a good color, slight sweetness and delicious tastes.A pulav with feast to eyes,nose and ofcourse tongue.

Ingredients:

Beetroot -2
potatoes -2
onions -2
pudina /mint - 1 bunch ( 1 cup)
green chillies -3
ginger -1 small
garlic - around 10 pods
ghee - 2 tbspn

Spices
star anise -1
cinnamon- 1
cardamom - 2
bay leaf - 2
cloves - 2
mace - 1

rice - 1 1/2 cup
water - 3 cups
salt - 1 1/2 tspn ( as per taste)

Procedure::

wash mint leaves and remove leaves separately.
 Cut onions into long thin slices. slit the green chillies.
wash beetroot peel and grate it. Peel potatoes and cut into medium size cubes.
make a paste of ginger, garlic and the spices.

Soak the rice while doing the prep. The grain will look long after cooking.

Take a handi add ghee. Once ghee is heated add green chillies. fry for a minute . add the spices paste and fry for a minute.
add onions and fry for 5 mins till cooked. add the pudina/mint and fry for 2 mins.
add the grated beetroot and potatoes and saute for 3-4 mins.
add 3 cups of water and add salt as per taste. stir it well. after the water starts boiling add rice and keep in low flame and cook for 20 mins. alternatively can be cooked in pressure cooker for 3 whistles or electric rice cooker.

Add raitha as side dish.

Zafrani pulao with nuts

Ingredients:

Basmati rice - 2 cups
saffron - 1/4 tspn
walnuts - 6-10 chopped
almonds - 10
cashewnuts- 15 ( nuts quantity can be increased as per taste)
onions - 2
milk - 3 tbspn
ghee - 2 tspn
oil - 2 tspn
pudina chooped - 1/4 cup
ginger garlic paste - 1 tbspn (can also finely chop them)
water - 3 cups ( or as per the rice bag instructions)

biryani masala:
cinnamon - 1/2 tspn crushed
cloves - 4
bay leaf - 1
star anise - 1 1/2
cardamom - 1 crushed
mace - 1 tspn crushed
green chillies - 4 slit ( vary  based on spiciness)

Hariyali pulav

Ingredients:

pudina/ mint leaves - 1/2 bunch
Spinach - 1 bunch
coriander leaves/parsley - 1/2 bunch
onion - 2
green chillies - 3-4
rice - 2 cups
water - 4 cups
ghee - 1tbspn
oil- 1 tbspn
cashewnuts - 5