Pulao

This weekend I decided to try out Pulao, I looked up several recipes in the end decided to follow the instructions that I got from my Mother-in-law as it seemed a lot easier. Here's the recipe

Ingredients:

1. one small bag of mixed vegetables (containing carrot, peas, green beans and lima beans).
2. 2 cups of basmati rice
3. 1 tsp oil
4. 2 tsp ghee
5. 1 tsp cumin
6. 3-4 cloves
7. 2 bay leaves or 2 tsp whole garam masala.
8. 2 tsp salt
9. 1 tsp sugar

Directions:


1. First wash basmati rice and soak it in water for over 10 mins and then drain.
2. First heat oil and ghee together. when the oil is hot enough add cloves, cumin and bay leaves and saute them and add all the vegetables once you see the cumins cracking.
3. Saute the vegetables nicely and turn the heat to low.
4. Now add the drained basmati rice and fold it with the vegetables. At this point add required amount of salt and sugar.
5. Add 2.25 cups of water and let the basmati rice pressure cook. 1-2 whistles in the pressure cooker should get the job done. Rice cooker can also be used.

Cucumber or Onion raita goes well with Pulao, I served this with cucumber raita and my husband really liked the pulao and raita :).