Pudina Pulao With Vegetables

Preparation Time : 20 minutes

Cooking time : 30 minutes

Ingredients

2 large carrots chopped into long chunks

Handful of french beans cut into medium sized pieces

1 medium sized potato peeled and chopped

1 cup fresh peas

3 tbsps oil

1 tbsp ghee

1 tbsp cumin seeds / jeera

2 cups raw rice

2 tbsps garam masala powder

Rock salt to taste

4 and half cups water

Ingredients for grinding

2 cups fresh pudina

Half a cup fresh coconut pieces

2 inch ginger chopped

6 green chillies

Method

1. In a mixer grinder jar, add pudina, ginger, coconut pieces and green chillies.
   
2. Grind to a fine paste by adding water as required.
   
3. Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker. Add jeera when the oil is hot.
   
4. Once the jeera crackles, add the ground paste.
   
5. Stir well. After a few minutes, the paste comes together.
   
6. Now add the chopped vegetables and mix well.
   
   
   
   
7. Add raw rice and mix well. Let the rice roast with the ground paste and the vegetables for 2-3 minutes.
   
8. Now add the garam masala powder and rock salt and give it a nice stir.
   

   
9. Add enough water for the rice and vegetables to get cooked.
   
   
10. Pressure cook for 2 whistles and turn off the flame. Allow the cooker to cool down.
11. Open the lid and fluff the rice well. You will see that the vegetables and the ground paste are mostly on the top layer. So you need to fluff the rice well with a thin ladle.
    

    

Hot and tasty pudina pulao with vegetables is now ready to be served with your favorite raitha.

Notes

1. I like to prepare this dish as a one-pot-cooking. I feel this is more quick in terms of cooking and is also hassle free as compared to frying the ground paste in a pan and then transferring rice and the paste with other ingredients to an electric rice cooker.
2. You may use basmathi rice for this recipe. Use the same quantity of basmathi rice. You can soak the basmathi rice 20 minutes before cooking and use it for this recipe.
3. If you want to use garlic, add them to the mixer jar while grinding the paste.
4. You may also add tomato puree to this recipe. Add the tomato puree after step 5.