Light Vegetable Pulav

Experiment 2

Light Vegetable Pulav

Today I made light vegetable pulav.The reason I call it light is,unlike the usual pulav which have tons of veggies in them my pulav is easy to make and has just 2 to 3 vegetables.Lets take a look at it.

Ingredients:

Basmati rice-2 cups
Potatoes chopped into medium chunks-2 medium
Green Peas-1/2 cup
diced Carrot-1/2 cup
Garam masala-1n1/2 tbsp
Red Chilli powder-2tsp
Salt
Cumin seeds-1 tsp
Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
Asafoetida-1/2 tsp
Butter-1 tbsp
Oil-2 tbsp
Water-3 cups


Procedure:
1)Wash the basmati rice and keep it aside.
2)In a pan take some oil and butter let them melt together.After the oil gets heated add cumin seeds,turmeric and asafoetida.Let the cumin seeds crackle.
3)Next add the chopped potatoes and fry them for 2 min.Add the carrots and peas and let the veggie mixture fry for 3 to 5 mins.Keep stirring them once in a while and cover the pan with a lid.
4)After the potatoes start to have a very thin brown layer,add salt,garam masala,red chilli powder and mix thoroughly.Let this stay for a minute.e careful no to burn the vegetables or over cook them.Its just till the flavour gets stuck with the vegetables.
5)Now add the basmati rice.Mix well and adjust any salt or spices if required.Leave the mixture for 2 min stirring constantly.
6)Add 3 cups water and cook the rice either in a rice cooker or directly .If cooking directly please watch carefully.
7)Serve with raita.


P.S:You can add any vegetable mixture you like.I could have added the ginger garlic paste which is also a variation,but that would not make the pulav light though healthy.The gin-gar paste is usually added after the cumin seeds crackle.

Storage:Pulav is edible for a span of 3 days if kept in a refrigerator.