Methi Pulao ( Pulao Made Alongside 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 plainly rice! He likes all kinds of pulaos.Methi pulao is past times far ane of my favorite pulaos too. I similar it non exclusively because of the delicious distinctive scent of the fenugreek merely also because of the immense wellness benefits of fenugreek leaves. I instruct far fifty-fifty to a greater extent than healthier past times adding dry out soy chunks as well as fresh tender greenish 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 as well as cleaned.
Soya chunks: 1 cup
Green peas: 1 loving cup ( I used frozen)
Ghee: ii tbsp
Coconut oil: ii tbsp
Clove: 3-4 nos
Cinnamon: ii 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: ii cups + 6 cups

Method:

Rinse the basmati rice thoroughly until all the starch is removed. Soak basmati rice inward H2O for thirty mins. Drain the H2O as well as allow it dry out for 20-30 minutes.

Soak the soy chunks for xv mins inward ii cups hot H2O alongside 1/8 th spoon tabular array salt added to it. Squeeze the soya chunks out of the H2O as well as continue aside.

Heat oil/ ghee mixture inward a kadai/ sauté pan/ pressure level cooker. Add the cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaves, cashew halves as well as the onions. Sauté until the onions plough transparent.

Add ginger-garlic paste, chopped greenish chillies as well as sauté for few seconds.

Now add together the turmeric pulverisation as well as the chopped tomatoes. Saute until the tomatoes wilt.Add inward the soy chunks.Add the methi leaves as well as create for 3-4 minutes.

Add inward the garam masala powder.

Add the drained rice as well as sauté for 2-4 minutes.

Add inward the hot water, salt, sugar, greenish peas as well as select it to a boil.

Cover, cut back the flaming to depression as well as create for xv minutes. If you lot are using a pressure level cooker/ pan, produce non locomote the whistle/ weight.

When done, fluff alongside a fork/ spoon.

Garnish alongside freshly chopped cilantro leaves.

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

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

The rice texture inward whatever sort of pulao is ane of the close of import factors for making it a proficient pulao. Rice should neither hold out overcooked or undercooked.Each grain of rice should hold out distinctive, merely cooked to perfection. This tin hold out easily achieved if ane pays attending to the next factors:
1. Soak the rice for thirty minutes as well as then that the grain elongates.
2. Drain as well as dry out for thirty minutes as well as then that it is non easily broken upon sautéing.
3. Use hot H2O as well as then that it tin create quickly.
4. It takes just xv minutes to create on medium-low flame. Do non opened upwards immediately. Let it sit down for xv to a greater extent than minutes afterwards switching off the flaming as well as earlier fluffing the rice.
5. Do non overmix the rice in ane lawsuit cooked. Over mixing causes the rice grains to break.

Tip for salubrious living:

Fenugreek has immense wellness benefits. It is strong inward pocket-size amounts. It is non exclusively a blood purifier merely is also known to influence hormones inward women. Lactating women produce goodness from the consumption of methi to increase the yield of milk.

Food for thought:

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