Vegetable Pulao Recipe - Spicy Vegetable Pulao Recipe

Vegetable is a simple and healthy Lunch Box Recipe & one pot meal, made with mixed Vegetables and some spices. Office Goers and Bachelor's can try this simple and healthy recipe. It requires just 10 - 15 minutes preparation time. Now we learn to make  vegetable pulao.

Vegetable pulao Recipe

Ingredients

Basmathi Rice - 1 cup.
Ghee - 2 tbsp
onion - 1.
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp.
Carrot -1.
beans - 10.
potato - 1.
Green peas - 1/3 cup.
coriander leaves - 2 tbsp(chopped).
Mint leaves - 2 tbsp(chopped).
salt - for taste.

Seasoning

Bay leaf - 1.
Cinnamon -1 piece.
cloves -2.
cardomom - 2.
Green chillies 2 (slit).

Spice Powders

Chilli powder - 1 tsp.
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp.
turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp.

Preparation

• Soak the basmathi rice in  water for 30 minutes.

•  Cut the carrot and potato into cubes, and cut the beans and onions lengthwise.

•  chop mint and coriander leaves finely.

Method

•  Take a pressure a cooker or pressure pan, add Ghee when it is hot add bayleaf, cinnamon, cloves,cardomom and slit green chillies.
• When you get nice aroma from spices, and when green chillies turns pale, add onions and Ginger garlic paste.
• When onions turns golden brown colour, add chopped carrots, beans, potato and peas.
• saute in a medium flame for 5 minutes.
• Add all spice powders (chilli powder, garam masala and turmeric powder) & salt  mix well,  add coriander leaves and mint leaves saute for 2 more minutes.
• Add rice with water. Mix well.
• When water starts boiling, cover the cooker lid, when steam comes from the cooker  put the weight, and sim it to very low flame for 5 minutes.
• Then switch off the flame, and give a standing time of 15  minutes, rice gets well cooked with the heat of cooker. Then remove the lid.
• Serve hot.