Monday, 16 December 2013

Methi Pulav



Ingredients:

  • Basmathi rice ( cooked ) - 3 cups
  • Methi leaves - 2 cups ( take only the leaves)
  • Onion - 2 nos
  • Tomato - 1 medium
  • Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tblspn
  • Oil - 1 tblspn
  • Ghee - 3 tspn 
  • Salt -to taste
  • Cloves - 2 nos
  • Cinnamon - 1 no ( 1 inch )
  • Elachi - 1 pod

Dry powders:

  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tspn
  • Chilli powder - 1 to 1 1/2 tspn
  • Coriander powder - 1 tspn
  • Garam masala - 11/4 tspn

Method:

  • Wash and soak basmathi rice in water for 15 mins then drain the water completely and keep aside
  • Boil 1 1/2 cup of water in a rice cooker for 1 cup of rice, when it starts to boil add cloves, cinnamon, elachi, 2 tspn of ghee and soaked rice 
  • After  rice cooked and spread it on a plate
  • Heat oil in a kadai, add onion, tomato and saute it till the tomato becomes tender
  • Add ginger garlic paste and keep in low flame for 2 to 3 mins till the raw smell goes
  • After that add methi leaves , keep in low flame for 2 to 3 mins till the leaves shrinks and cooks well
  • Now add all the dry powders and mix it well, saute it for few more minutes 
  • Then add 2 tspn ghee, salt and cooked rice mix them well till the masala blend with the rice 
  • Keep in low flame for 2 to 3 mins and swtich off the stove
  • Serve the tasty methi pulav with raitha or any other gravy as side dish






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