Methi Pulao ( Pulao Made Amongst Fresh Fenugreek Leaves), Meatless Monday

This calendar week is my husband's birthday. Hence, all calendar week I am making his favorite dishes! He could consume pulao everyday instead of manifestly rice! He likes all kinds of pulaos.Methi pulao is past times far 1 of my favorite pulaos too. I similar it non alone because of the delicious distinctive odour of the fenugreek just also because of the immense wellness benefits of fenugreek leaves. I piece of job inwards fifty-fifty to a greater extent than healthier past times adding dry out soy chunks in addition to fresh tender light-green peas.Mmmm yummy! Pair it alongside fresh cucumber raita, it is sky on earth. Here is a fine repast for you.

Serving: 6-8

Ingredients :

Basmati rice: three cups
Fresh Methi leaves (Fenugreek leaves): 1 loving cup ( from 1 medium bunch), washed in addition to cleaned.
Soya chunks: 1 cup
Green peas: 1 loving cup ( I used frozen)
Ghee: two tbsp
Coconut oil: two tbsp
Clove: 3-4 nos
Cinnamon: two inch stick
Bay leaf: 1 big
Cardamom pods: 3-4
Cashewnut halves: 1 tbsp
Onion: 1 large,chopped lengthwise.
Ginger-garlic paste: 1 tbsp
Green chillies: 4-6( depending on your spice level),chopped fine
Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
Garam masala powder: 1 tsp
Tomato: 1 medium, chopped
Salt : to taste
Sugar: 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves: 1 tbsp chopped fine ( for garnishing)
Hot Water: two cups + 6 cups

Method:

Rinse the basmati rice thoroughly until all the starch is removed. Soak basmati rice inwards H2O for xxx mins. Drain the H2O in addition to permit it dry out for 20-30 minutes.

Soak the soy chunks for fifteen mins inwards two cups hot H2O alongside 1/8 th spoon tabular array salt added to it. Squeeze the soya chunks out of the H2O in addition to piece of job along aside.

Heat oil/ ghee mixture inwards a kadai/ sauté pan/ pressure level cooker. Add the cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaves, cashew halves in addition to the onions. Sauté until the onions plow transparent.

Add ginger-garlic paste, chopped light-green chillies in addition to sauté for few seconds.

Now add together the turmeric pulverization in addition to the chopped tomatoes. Saute until the tomatoes wilt.Add inwards the soy chunks.Add the methi leaves in addition to laid upward for 3-4 minutes.

Add inwards the garam masala powder.

Add the drained rice in addition to sauté for 2-4 minutes.

Add inwards the hot water, salt, sugar, light-green peas in addition to choose it to a boil.

Cover, cut the flaming to depression in addition to laid upward for fifteen minutes. If you lot are using a pressure level cooker/ pan, produce non purpose the whistle/ weight.

When done, fluff alongside a fork/ spoon.

Garnish alongside freshly chopped cilantro leaves.

Serve hot alongside a raita/salad of your choice or past times itself.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

The rice texture inwards whatever sort of pulao is 1 of the nearly of import factors for making it a practiced pulao. Rice should neither travel overcooked or undercooked.Each grain of rice should travel distinctive, just cooked to perfection. This tin travel easily achieved if 1 pays attending to the next factors:
1. Soak the rice for xxx minutes in addition to hence that the grain elongates.
2. Drain in addition to dry out for xxx minutes in addition to hence that it is non easily broken upon sautéing.
3. Use hot H2O in addition to hence that it tin laid upward quickly.
4. It takes just fifteen minutes to laid upward on medium-low flame. Do non opened upward immediately. Let it sit down for fifteen to a greater extent than minutes later switching off the flaming in addition to earlier fluffing the rice.
5. Do non overmix the rice 1 time cooked. Over mixing causes the rice grains to break.

Tip for good for you lot living:

Fenugreek has immense wellness benefits. It is rigid inwards modest amounts. It is non alone a blood purifier just is also known to influence hormones inwards women. Lactating women produce goodness from the consumption of methi to increase the yield of milk.

Food for thought:

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