Receipe 2: Veg Pulav

Veg Pulav is one of the easiest dish to make.. and not to mention, it tastes terrific too!

The method is pretty simple. Cutting the vegetables is the only time-consuming factor in this.

So lets see what we need to make this delicious rice.

What you need?

Basmati Rice (Using normal rice won't hurt either.. but there will be slight downside in the taste)
Carrots
Beans
Onions
Peas (its not all seasonal.. but it enhances the taste anyday!)
cauliflower(optional)
curry leaves
cinnamon
cloves
green chillies
garam masala (Everest Brand is damn good)
Kitchen King (Everest again.. no i am not the Everest Brand ambassador)
Cashews (Optional)
Ghee to fry Cashews
Oil
Salt

And for the raita, you need

Curd

Le Method:

Step 1:

As i said, cutting the vegetables is what takes time in this receipe.
Cut the onions, carrots, beans and keep it aside. Pull out the peas from its cover if you have got peas.
If you want to add cauliflower, cut it taking its flowers separate and boil it in water for about 10 mins. (To kill the worms.. Caluliflower comes with a terrific collection of worms.. unless you are intersted to taste the worms, best is to kill them by boiling. Eating dead worms is better than live ones anyday! ahem!)
With this, our preparation comes to an end.

Step 2:

Heat a pan with some oil.. Just enough to fry the onions. When the oil gets heated up, add the onions, chillies,curry leaves, cloves and a bit of cinnamon. (Please don't add more than one green chilly if you don't want it spicy.) Once the onion turns a bit brown, add some salt to taste and add one teaspoon of garam masala and Kitchen king. If you want you can add those pulav masalas you get in market. But its not needed. Turn off the gas and keep this mixture aside.

Step 3:

Wash the rice. Now if you want to make fried rice, all you hav to do is to fry the rice before you cook it. You can fry it with some ghee. It will turn out delicious. But for pulav, we need the rice to be soft. So no fryin is required. The measure of rice-water is same as we cook the normal rice. The ratio for rice and water will be 1:2.

Then put the rice in the cooker and on top of it add the cut vegetables and the onion masala mixture. And let it cook.

Step 4:

Thats it! Its done. Its nothing but adding vegetables to our normal cooked rice. For garnishing you can add some fried cashews. If you are diet conscious, you can skip this.
Check the salt. Add more if you want. Incase it turns out to be more spicy than your liking, you can add salt to supress the spice.

Step 5:

Making of the raita.

Just add the cut onions to fresh curd. Add salt and garnish it with coriander leaves if you want.

Step 6:

Lets Eat!