Quick rice based recipe for easy colorful meal with yogurt. The stir fried french beans , peas and carrots in butter retains the attractive green and red color as well as the flavor of the vegetables. The rice is mildly flavored with the sweetness of big cardamom and the garnish of ginger adds a crisp spicy flavor to the rice pulao. A recipe for a mild , light comforting meal.
Recipe : 3 people
Cooking time : 45 min
Preparation time : 15 min
Ingredients
For Pulao
- 2 cups rice
- 1 carrot sliced in thin strips lengthwise
- I cup french beans sliced lenghtwise
- 1/2 cup shelled peas
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 big cardamoms
- 1 1/2 tbsp ghee (clarified butter) for vegetables
- 1/2 tbsp ghee for rice
- pinch of asofoetida
- salt to taste
- 1 inch ginger very thinly sliced
Method
- Wash the rice thrice , add 4 cups of water soak for 20 minutes.
- Heat the ghee for rice in a wide pan.
- Add the big cardamoms to ghee, and wait for it to become big.
- Add the bay leaves and saute till golden brown.
- Pour this in the rice.
- Add salt to taste and put the rice to cook in a rice cooker, or in a pressure cooker.
- In the same pan, now heat 1 1/2 tbsp ghee for vegetables.
- Add asofoetida.
- Add french beans and carrots and stir fry on high flame for 5 minutes.
- Add shelled peas, and further saute for another 3 minutes.
- Add salt to taste and remove from flame after a minute.
- When the rice is cooked, spread the rice in a wide pan, add the french/beans carrots/peas /thinly sliced ginger and mix gently.
- Serve with Pomegranate Yogurt dip [aio_button align=”none” animation=”none” color=”blue” size=”small” icon=”search” text=”Recipe” relationship=”dofollow” url=”http://cookingbyinstinct.com/pomegranate-yogurt-dip/”]
Tips:
Frozen french beans thinly sliced also work well in this recipe.
Jain Variation: Carrots can be replaced with sweet red peppers and instead of ginger garnish, 5-6 cloves can be added to the seasoning of ghee for the pulao. Dice the red peppers into thin long slices and stir fry along with french beans.
Instinct Factor
Aroma of cooked rice when cooking on the rice on the stove top in an open pan.
Feel Factor
An easy evening meal that is colorful and appetizing and your daily share of veggies.
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