Easy Peas & Carrots Pulao ( Pilaf)

My hubby likes his nutrient to hold upward colorful. So, whenever a side dish calls for a lilliputian fancy variety of rice, similar jeera rice or ghee rice, I brand this instead. My children similar it besides together with this means they larn their constituent of veggies too. It's quick & slowly to make.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice: two cups
Ghee(clarified butter): 1 tbsp
Olive oil: 1 tbsp
Clove: 2
Cinnamon : 1 half-inch stick
Cardamom :2 whole
Bay leaf: 1 big
Cashew halves: 1 tbsp
Raisins: 1 tsp
Peas together with carrots(frozen):1/2 cup
Hot Water:4 cups
Salt to taste

Method:

Wash basmati rice thoroughly, drain together with proceed aside 15-30 mins earlier adding it to the pan.

In a sauté pan/wok/pressure cooker oestrus olive stone oil together with ghee. Add clove, cinnamon stick, cardamom, bay leaf, cashew halves i later the other. Sauté on medium-to depression open fire until cashew halves outset turning a lilliputian golden. Now add together raisins together with sauté for 10 seconds until they laid about to plow a lilliputian plump.

Add the drained basmati rice together with sauté for 2-3 mins or until the rice crackles. Add inward the peas together with carrots.Now add together four cups of boiling hot H2O together with salt. Mix well. Once yous come across the liquid is boiling, trim down the open fire to low, comprehend it together with laid upward for xv mins.After xv mins, switch off the flame,fluff the rice.Keep it covered for to a greater extent than or less other xv mins earlier serving.

Serve alongside whatsoever side dish that has gravy . I served mine this fourth dimension alongside butter chicken. Recipe volition hold upward made available inward my side past times side post.

Cooking made easy:

While making whatsoever rice dishes that uses uncooked rice, the full general dominion of pollex for rice together with H2O ratio is 1:2 unless stated otherwise.
Make certain that yous utilisation hot H2O together with non cold. This makes cooking faster.
If using trace per unit of measurement area cooker, practise non lay the weight ( whistle) on.
Fluffing the rice at the destination of xv mins ensures that the happen layer of the rice does non larn hard.
In the higher upward recipe, I used frozen fresh peas together with carrots.You tin terminate utilisation dried peas which has been soaked together with cooked together with fresh carrots, diced.
I utilisation ghee together with olive stone oil inward 1:1 ratio inward my dishes instead of ghee lonely inward gild to trim down the sum of calories. Ghee is needed every bit it adds flavour to the dish.

Tip for Healthy Living:

Some sum of fats are required inward our diets every bit they accept numerous essential functions inward the human body. This is specially truthful inward growing children. As long every bit the fats are natural together with non man-made together with inward pocket-size amounts, it is healthy. Check out to a greater extent than here: http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidelifescience/fats_do.html

Food for thought:

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