Green Pulao Recipe

Serve Green Veg Pulao to your guests or prepare it for a party. Green Veg Pulao looks tempting and is delicious to eat. Today we will prepare Green Pulao.

- Ingredients for Green Pulao

• Basmati rice  - 200 grams (1 cup)
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Green coriander(dhaniya) - 100 grams (1 small bunch)
• Green chilly - 1 to 2
• Ginger - 1 inch long piece (finely chopped)
• Peas - 1/2 cup(peeled)
• Capsicum - 1 (remove seeds and cut into small pieces)
• Clove - 4
• Black pepper - 8
• Elaichi(cardamom) - 2 to 3 (peel and take out seeds)
• Cinnamon - 1 piece
• Salt - add to taste (3/4 tsp)

-How to make Green Pulav

Clean, wash and soak rice grains in water for 30 minutes. Drain out water from the rice grains.
Clean green coriander, remove its fat stems, cut off the stem of the green chilly and put both of them in a mixer with little water to make a fine paste.
Grind cloves, black pepper, cinnamon and Elaichi to a coarse powder. Pour Ghee in a frying pan(kadhai) and heat, Put the grounded spices in hot Ghee followed by peas, capsicum and ginger. Fry all these ingredients for 2 minutes.
After frying the vegetables add rice grains and dhaniya paste to it, stir fry for 2-3 minutes. Now pour water twice the amount of riceand mix. Put salt then close the cooker.
After 1 whistle goes off turn off the gas. Let half of te cooker's pressure release then open its lid. Mouth watering Green Pulao is ready.
Cook Green Veg Pulao in a microwave :
Once you fry the rice grains and spices put them in a microwave friendly glass cooking bowl, pour water double the amount of rice. Put salt, put a lid on the bowl then keep it in the microwave and set it for 12 minutes.
Serve hot Green Veg Pulao with curd and Papadum.
Serves - 4
Cooking time -30 minutes