Quick Slowly Mixed Vegetable Pulao ( Pilaf)

For the longest, making vegetable pulao for me was a long-drawn procedure to endure saved solely for weekends when I had the time. I used to e'er intend you lot convey to grind as well as brand a coriander/ cilantro or mint based light-green glue as well as thus sauté this, practice 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 only couldn't halt eating! I decided to larn the recipe from her. It is simple, quick as well as 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 as well as proceed aside 15-30 mins earlier adding it to the pan.

Boil i loving cup H2O amongst a pinch of salt. Turn off the heat, add together the soya chunks as well as proceed it aside for 10-15 mins. Then squash the excess H2O out of the soya chunks as well as proceed it inwards a split upward bowl.

In a sauté pan/wok/pressure cooker rut olive crude oil as well as ghee. Add chopped garlic, sauté for thirty seconds. Add chopped ginger as well as in i lawsuit again sauté for thirty seconds. Now add together the chopped onions as well as sauté until golden brown. Add chopped cashew nuts as well as strained soya chunks. Then add together chopped tomatoes as well as light-green chillies as well as sauté for 3-4 mins until the tomatoes are wilted. Now add together haldi( turmeric) pulverization as well as garam masala powder, sauté for a minute. Add the drained basmati rice as well as sauté for 2-3 mins or until the rice crackles. Add the mixed vegetables.Now add together four cups of boiling hot H2O as well as salt. Mix well. Once you lot run into the liquid is boiling, trim back the open fire to low, encompass it as well as ready for fifteen mins. (If adding mushrooms,mix it inwards at the goal of 10 mins).After fifteen mins, switch off the flame,fluff the rice . Keep it covered for about other fifteen mins earlier serving.

Serve hot amongst raita or manifestly cucumber salad.

I dear mine amongst slices of avocados .

Cooking made easy:

Learn to role what is available inwards your pantry. There is no difficult as well as fast dominion for cooking. We tin e'er improvise, experiment inside reason.
Any combination of mixed vegetables tin endure used for pulao.I used frozen mixed vegetable comprising of peas, carrots, beans as well as corn.You tin role fresh vegetables of your choice.
You tin role ghee lone for the pulao. I role a combination of crude oil & ghee to acquire inwards a piffling less fattening.
Instead of fresh ginger as well as garlic, ginger garlic glue tin endure used if you lot are inwards a rush.
The argue for adding mushrooms towards the goal is to avoid overcooking the mushrooms.
Make certain that you lot role hot H2O as well as non cold. This makes cooking faster.
If using pressure level cooker, practice non position the weight ( whistle) on.
Fluffing the rice at the goal of fifteen mins ensures that the top 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 endure whatsoever type of recreational action you lot similar or only business office of your daily life. For example: walking briskly to the busy stop, taking the stairs instead of the elevator. This non solely burns calories but besides improves your full general wellness as well as facilitates a feel of well-being.

Food for thought:

Desire is the origin crusade of misery.(Buddha)