Quick Tardily Mixed Vegetable Pulao ( Pilaf)

For the longest, making vegetable pulao for me was a long-drawn procedure to last saved alone for weekends when I had the time. I used to e'er intend yous convey to grind too brand a coriander/ cilantro or mint based greenish glue thus sauté this, exercise that... Just thinking most it used to tire me out. My mother in law broke that myth for me. To date, her vegetable pulao is the best! Every fourth dimension she visited us, I simply couldn't halt eating! I decided to acquire the recipe from her. It is simple, quick too absolutely lip-smacking! My husband's all-time favorite! Here's the recipe.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice : ii cups
Ghee( clarified butter):1tbsp
Olive oil: ii tbsp
Onion: ii medium chopped
Garlic : v cloves chopped fine
Ginger: 1 inch chopped fine
Green chillies: four chopped fine
Tomato: 1 medium chopped
Frozen Mixed vegetables: 11/2 cups
Mushrooms: sliced 1 cup( optional).
Soya chunks: 1/2 cup
Cashew nut : 1 tbsp chopped(optional)
Garam masala: 1 tbsp
Haldi ( turmeric powder):1 tsp
Water: four cups + 1 cup
Salt to taste

Method:

Wash basmati rice thoroughly too piece of employment along aside 15-30 mins earlier adding it to the pan.

Boil i loving cup H2O alongside a pinch of salt. Turn off the heat, add together the soya chunks too piece of employment along it aside for 10-15 mins. Then squelch the excess H2O out of the soya chunks too piece of employment along it inward a dissever bowl.

In a sauté pan/wok/pressure cooker rut olive crude too ghee. Add chopped garlic, sauté for thirty seconds. Add chopped ginger too i time to a greater extent than sauté for thirty seconds. Now add together the chopped onions too sauté until golden brown. Add chopped cashew nuts too strained soya chunks. Then add together chopped tomatoes too greenish chillies too sauté for 3-4 mins until the tomatoes are wilted. Now add together haldi( turmeric) pulverization too garam masala powder, sauté for a minute. Add the drained basmati rice too sauté for 2-3 mins or until the rice crackles. Add the mixed vegetables.Now add together four cups of boiling hot H2O too salt. Mix well. Once yous run into the liquid is boiling, trim back the open fire to low, comprehend it too fix for xv mins. (If adding mushrooms,mix it inward at the terminate of 10 mins).After xv mins, switch off the flame,fluff the rice . Keep it covered for simply about other xv mins earlier serving.

Serve hot alongside raita or apparently cucumber salad.

I dearest mine alongside slices of avocados .

Cooking made easy:

Learn to role what is available inward your pantry. There is no difficult too fast dominion for cooking. We tin e'er improvise, experiment inside reason.
Any combination of mixed vegetables tin last used for pulao.I used frozen mixed vegetable comprising of peas, carrots, beans too corn.You tin role fresh vegetables of your choice.
You tin role ghee lone for the pulao. I role a combination of crude & ghee to arrive a niggling less fattening.
Instead of fresh ginger too garlic, ginger garlic glue tin last used if yous are inward a rush.
The argue for adding mushrooms towards the terminate is to avoid overcooking the mushrooms.
Make certain that yous role hot H2O too non cold. This makes cooking faster.
If using clitoris per unit of measurement area cooker, exercise non lay the weight ( whistle) on.
Fluffing the rice at the terminate of xv mins ensures that the transcend layer of the rice does non acquire hard.

Tip for Healthy Living:

Incorporate at to the lowest degree 20-30 mins of physical action into your day. This could last whatever type of recreational action yous similar or simply business office of your daily life. For example: walking briskly to the busy stop, taking the stairs instead of the elevator. This non alone burns calories but equally good improves your full general wellness too facilitates a feel of well-being.

Food for thought:

Desire is the beginning drive of misery.(Buddha)