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Vegetable Rice (Pulav)
January 20th, 2007 filed under Rice, Vegan
Vegetable pulav is a mix of spicy vegetables with rice. This is a great dish for lunch. If you are not in the mood to prepare a big meal, use vegetable pulav as a one-dish meal. Serve with yogurt, pickle, papadam or chutney.
Serves 2 to 4.
Ingredients:
- For rice
- 1 cup basmati or long grain rice
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon salt
- For vegetables
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
- 1 medium sized potato, chopped into 1/2″ cubes
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 cup cauliflower, cut into small pieces
- 1 cup frozen green peas
- 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
- 2 long sliced green peppers
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- For garnish:
- 2 tablespoons minced cilantro
Preparing the rice:
- Heat the oil in a saucepan. Test the oil by adding one cumin seed; if seed cracks right away oil is ready.
- Add cumin seeds after cumin seeds crack add bay leaves and stir for few seconds.
- Next add the rice. Stir-fry for 2 minutes.
- Add water and salt, bring to a boil and turn the heat to low. Cover the pan.
- Cook about 15 minutes, or until the rice is tender and the water has evaporated. Turn off the heat and fluff the rice with a fork.
Preparing the vegetables:
- Use a frying pan to cook the vegetables. Add the vegetables in steps, the vegetables that need the most time to cook are added first and the vegetables that need the least time will be added last.
- Heat the oil in frying pan. Test the heat by adding one cumin seed to the oil; if it cracks right away oil is ready.
- Add cumin seeds after cumin seeds crack, add potatoes, stir-fry them for about 2 minutes.
- Add cauliflower and carrots. Let them cook for about another 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Next add green peas, bell pepper, ginger and green chilies. Let the vegetables cook for a few minutes till vegetables are tender. Turn off the heat.
- Add garam masala and lemon juice.
- Next gently fold the rice into the vegetables. Transfer to a serving dish and garnish the rice dish with cilantro.
namaste! i want to thank you so much for sharing your recipes with us. your videos are so helpful to learn indian cooking and i love hearing your tips and comments on the recipes. i just made this pulav and it was absolutely delicious, perfect lunch with a lassi. THANK YOU!! you are doing a wonderful service
Thank you so much for your recipes and your clear presentation! I learned how to cook roti some months ago with your fabulous video. Please continue to share your cooking wisdom with us! Blessings on you and your family.
Very easy and quick. Absolutely love the way you explain the process. I’m not a great cook but get inspired to cook after watching your videos.
Thanks a ton
Cheers,
Sheetal
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Namasthe Manjula ji,
All your dishes are fantastic. You are teaching cooking in a very easy and simple fashion and they are still very very tasty and yummy. In a way, you are doing a fantastic service to human kind by posting all these video blogs on how to cook vegetarian dishes. Even without using Onions and with using minimum spices, you are making awesome tasty dish. My wife tried lots of varieties by viewing your videos, thats how I learnt about you. Now she is in India and I have to survive myself. I tried Veg Pulao today, ofcourse I took 2 hours to prepare because I am a beginner cook. It came wonderful. So many people would have been helped by you like this by what you do. I want to thank you a thousand times for your kindness in doing such wonderful help/guidance, and praying God that (S)He should give you a lots of happiness to all your family members. You are such an inspiration. You should write atleast a little more about you and your family on this blog.
THANK YOU !
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In the video you mention serrano chili, cinnamon sticks, cloves and something else, “black ****”, I can’t understand. None of those are mentioned in the typed recipe.
Its black cardamom also known as brown cardamom.It is big in size as compared to ordinary cardamom.
your video on you tube is excellent. Its great for novice cooks.
hi manjula ji
thanks a lot for this recipe. My family loved it, so did I… thanks again.
Hello aunti,
I have a question. If I want to cook rice and vegetables together and not seperately, how should i do it?
Hi Sushant,
Cook the vegetables for few minutes before adding the rice. Vegetables should be little then half the way cook.