Veg Pulav

Preparation time: 30 mins


Ingredients:

• Rice - 1 cup
• Green peas - 1 small bowl
• Onion - 1 medium
• Carrot - 1 medium
• Green beans - 12 - 15
• Potato - 1 medium
• Cashews - 10
• Mint leaves - 1 small bowl
• Cinnamon - 1 inch
• Cloves - 5
• Cardamom - 1or 2
• Ginger - 1inch
• Garlic - 7 cloves
• Grated Coconut -1 small bowl
• Green Chilies - 7
• Fresh Coriander leaves - 1 small bowl
• Fresh Curd - 1 bowl
• Cucumber - 1/2 bowl
• Tomato - 2
• Mustard seed - 1sp
• Curry leaves - 10
• Oil - 7 sp
• Bay leaves -1
• Ghee - 3sp
• Garam masala - 1 sp
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. To Prepare masala

• Heat 2sp oil in a pan, add cinnamon and cloves  fry well
• Add green chilies, curry leaves and pudina/mint leaves fry well
• In a Mixer jar add all fried ingredients, grated coconut, coriander leaves, ginger and garlic, add required amount of water to make thick paste.

2. Making of pulav

• Heat 5 sp oil and 3 sp ghee in thick bottom pressure cooker; add mustard seed allow to pop well. Add cardamom. Add cashews and fry until light brown. 
• Add bay leaves curry leaves followed by thinly sliced onion and fry until they are transparent.
• Add Green peas fry for a while; add the 1 inch sliced carrots, green beans and potatoes fry for 2 mins.
• Add 1 sliced tomatoes and fry for another 2 mins.
• Add the rice which is soaked for 30 mins. fry for a while.(Pulav tastes best with basmati rice or it can be 1:1 of basmati and ordinary rice)
• Add masala prepared in step No.1 and fry for 2 mins. Add required quantity of water (1:2), salt to taste and pressure cook until 2-3 whistles. Wait until pressure comes down, Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves and serve with curd raita prepared in step 3.

3. To Prepare Curd raita:

• Take Fresh curd in a bowl.
• Add finely Chopped onion(1 small), Cucumber, Tomato (1 medium). and greed chilies(3)
• For seasoning heat 2 sp oil in a pan, and 1/4sp mustard seed, curry leaves and add to curd
• Add finely chopped coriander leaves and salt to taste(1/4sp). Garnish with garam masala and red chili powder. 

Ps: You can also place cinnamon, cardamom and cloves in a muslin cloth and form small not and drop it when water is boiling in pressure cooker.Later you can remove this knot.