Vegetable Pulav

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 40 to 45 mins
Serves: 4 to 5

Ingredients

Basmati rice – 2 cup

Carrot – 1, grated

Beans - ½ cup, cut  into thin round pieces

Frozen green peas – ½ cup(Here i didn't used green peas)

Onion – 1 (medium-sized), thinly sliced

Raisins – ¼ cup(Here i used black raisins)

Cashew -1/4 cup

Cloves – 6

Cardamom – 4

Cinnamon stick – ½ inch

Black pepper corns – 8

Bay leaves-1

Ghee / oil – 1.5 tbsp + 1 tbsp

Salt – to taste

Directions:

1. Soak the rice for 20 minutes.

2. Drain it and keep aside.

3. Shallow fry the raisins, cashews in ghee and keep aside.

4. Fry the sliced onion until brown.

5. Then shallow fry the beans with a pinch of salt.

6. When the beans are half-done add the carrots, little salt and shallow fry them (add more ghee /oil if needed).

Keep these fried vegetables aside.

7. Heat a heavy nonstick pan, add the ghee and fry the drained rice in low flame for 5 mints.

8. Meanwhile in another vessel boil water (4 cups for 2 cups of rice) with salt and whole garam masala.

9. Pour the boiling water to the pan containing fried rice and stir well. Close it with a lid and cook in medium heat.

10. Check for water in between.

11. After 25- 30 mints the rice will be 98% cooked and there will be no water in the pan.

12. Then remove it from the heat and add the green peas (don’t stir), close it again with the lid. Let it cool.

13. The rice will be fully cooked by that time. Now add the fried Vegetables, fried onion, cashews, raisins to the

rice and mix gently with a fork.