MeraForum Community.No 1 Pakistani Forum Community - * SpicY Vegetable Pulao *By ADoO

Ingredients
Basmati rice - 4 cups
Beans - 100 gm
Carrot - 100 gm
Green peas - 50 gm
Coriander leaves - 1 cup
Potato(medium) - 1 no
Mint leaves(Pudhina) - 1/2 cup
Green chillies - 8 -10 nos
Coconut milk - 3 cups
Water - 3 cups
Salt - As reqd
(Preferably 1 tsp for 2 cups of rice)
Lemon juice - 1/2 a lemon or 2tsp of lime juice.
Ginger-Garlic paste - 2 tsp
Fennel seeds - A pinch
Black cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Bay leaf- 10
Mace flower- 3 nos
Cloves - 10 nos
Cinnamom- 2 inch piece
Cardamom - 2 nos
Garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Onion(medium) - 1 no
Oil and ghee together - 1/4cup

Method of Spicy Vegetable Pulao Recipe

1)Chop carrots, beans and potato to small sized cubes and keep them aside. Make slits in green chillies.

2)Make a paste of 1/4 cup mint leaf and 1/2 cup coriander leaf and keep aside.

3)In a pressure pan, season all the spices(cinnamom, cloves, biryani leaf, saunf, cardamom, shazeera, mace flower)and also few mint leaves.(or u can grind the above psices and use )

4)Add onion slices and saute for a while.

5)Add chopped beans, carrot peas, potato and green chillies and saute for 5 minutes.

6)Add gingergarlic paste, mint-coriander leaf paste and saute for 1/2 minute and then add washed,soaked(for 15minutes) and drained basmati rice and saute for 1-2 minutes.Take care to see that the rice doesn`t get burnt in the process of sauteeing .

7)Add coconut milk, water, salt, lemon juice and a 1 spoon of garam masala powder and cover the lid of pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 2 whistles.(If u r preparing in rice cooker transfer all the contents to electric rice cooker and cook till done.)

8)Garnish with coriander leaves.

:- Serve hot with raitha.

Note :

!).I prepare the coconut milk at home by heating the frozen coconut mixture with water for 5-7 minutes in a microwave or stove and strain it and just use the milk and discard the waste pulp

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