PEAS PULAV

This Pulav always goes along with any side dish or raita,  kids love this Pulav, since it is so mild.... This is a very very easy method, I have been following this for ages, never once it has flopped. Always, when I have guests for lunch or dinner, when they call and tell me they are nearing my home, I start making this, and when they come, it is ready, steaming hot!!! (Of course, I keep things ready)

Ingredients

Basmati rice - 2 1/2 cups

Water - 5 cups

Shelled peas - 1 cup

Onions - 2, slit lengthwise

Green chillies - 4, slit

Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tsp

Bay leaf - 2-3 small pieces

Cardamoms - 6

Cloves - 6

Cinnamon - 6 small bits

Jeera - 1 tsp

Cooking oil + ghee - 6 tbps

Salt to taste

Recipe Cuisine: North Indian; Category: Lunch / Dinner

Prep time: 10 mts; Cooking time:15 mts

Serves 6-7

Wash and soak basmati rice for 15 minutes

Then drain

Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker, season jeera and bay leaf 

Now add green chillies and all the spices

Now onions and the ginger-garlic paste

now the peas

Add salt

Add boiling hot water, the measured quantity

When steam comes out, close the vent with a small cup and keep on the lowest flames, and ....

cook for 10 minutes.

The below picture shows the pulav after 5 minutes, when you need to open and give a gentle stir

Fully done! This is a fool proof method, you don't even have to fluff it up with a fork!

I can keep a bet...can you show one grain sticking to the other???

Serve with potato chips ,  Palak raita. and Paneer butter masala

This post first appeared in www.malpatskitchen.com

Notes

*Can deseed the green chillies, if there are young kids at home.

*Spices can be pulsed and added for kids' sake. In that case, the sparkling white colour may fade little bit.

Please get back to me. Your comments will encourage me to a great extent.

Categories: Rice Varieties