In my early cooking stages, thought pulao is something very different and cannot be done that much easily. My thinking was totally wrong, when I started trying out the pulao/pulav's. This is one of such an easy pulao, to be tried out for the beginners.
Ingredients
To Temper
Method
Add green chillies, ginger - garlic pastte
Ingredients
- Basmati Rice - 3 cups
- Water - 4.5 cups (or as directed by the back side of basmati rice pack)
- Babycorn - 5 to 6
- Green peas - 1/4 cup
- Mint leaves - few
- Coriander leaves - few
- Salt - as per taste
- Ghee - 4 tsp
To Temper
- Oil - 3 tsp
- Cinnamon stick - 1 crushed
- Star anise - 2
- Bayleaves - 1
- Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Cloves - 3 to 4
- Cardamom - 1
Method
- Soak the biryani rice for 20 - 30 min.
- Wash the baby corns and cut into small pieces as shown.
- In a pressure cooker, add the ingredients under temper (Ingredients II), one by one and slightly fry.
- Add the onions and fry.
Add green chillies, ginger - garlic pastte
- Add the mint leaves and Coriander leaves and saute nicely.
- Add in the green peas and keep stirring for 1 min.
- Add in the baby corns and salt.
- Add the water and allow to boil.
- When the water starts boiling, add the soaked rice.
- Slightly mix the baby-corn and rice.
- Close the lid and keep the flame in low. Do not use whistle. Allow to cook in low flame for 10 to 15 min. Switch off .
- Open the lid and add ghee and slightly mix the cooked pulav, without breaking the rice.