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Veg pulav

Veg Pulav is flavoursome and ideal for weekend lunch. Pair it with any yoghurt based salad.
Course dinner, lunch ideas, Main Course
Cuisine Indian
Keyword mint pulav, pulav variety
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
10 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup basmati
  • 2 onion
  • vegetables beans, carrot, capsicum
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 bay leaf
  • water
  • salt
  • To be ground to a paste:
  • 20 mint leaves
  • 2 green chilli
  • 1 tablespoon fresh coconut
  • 2 cardamom
  • 3 clove
  • 5 pepper corns
  • 4 cloves of garlic

Instructions

  • Rinse the rice and keep it aside for fifteen minutes.
  • Cut the vegetables into small pieces.
  • Grind the ingredients mentioned together for paste.
  • Take oil in a pressure pan. Add cumin and bay leaf to it. Once it splutters, put the onion to it. Saute for sometime.
  • Add beans, saute it. After a minute, throw in the carrot pieces. Later, add capsicum to it and continue to saute.
  • Put the ground paste and saute for three minutes.
  • Add rice to it and saute for a minute.
  • Put water and salt, give a stir.
  • Close a lid and allow to cook on low flame.
  • Once it done, fluff it slowly and serve after ten minutes with any curry or salad.

Notes

You can use other vegetables and green peas. I have not used here.
The spiciness was moderate, use more green chillies if needed.