Somedays you just act on instinct. You just pull out ingredients from the fridge and start chopping and cutting randomly. Suddenly a dish starts to form on its own and you know it is good. Thats the thing about improvisation - you add this here and that there - and construct your own dishes making them taste good and impress everyone around you. Making pulaos is an art, you need to have just the right ingredients, the right flavors and the right techniques. And there can be disasters - oh yes they can be - but if you can get it right everything is good.
This is not exactly a proper pulao. In fact, it is a cross between pulao and a fried rice. And to make things easier, you can make it in a rice cooker so you can just let it cook at the flick of a switch. This recipe is a celebration of the vegetables in the supermarket. It contains leeks, red and yellow bell peppers, carrots, mushrooms and cucumbers. And lets me clarify - the cucumber is for the raita that goes so well with this pulao. This contains some really mellow flavors making it perfect to have with any type of curry or sabzi with raita. This recipe is a good one to have in your repertoire when you have people over the dinner or a special Sunday lunch. You can add different vegetables like cauliflower when they are in season, beets, peas or even fry paneer[just repeat the mushroom process] and make a really hearty rice dish for a grand occasion.
Ingredients:
1 leek sliced
2 onions sliced
6 gloves garlic chopped
1 green chilly chopped
1 red bell peppers sliced
1 yellow bell peppers sliced
2 carrots sliced
6 green beans sliced
1 packet of button mushrooms sliced
1 and 1/4 cup rice
1tsp pepper
2tsp red chili powder
2tsp garam masala
salt to taste
Oil for cooking
Water for cooking rice
Juice of half a lemon
Coriander leaves chopped
Method:
Switch on your cooker. Add the oil and wait for two minutes.
Add the leek and onions and fry for 6 to 7 minutes. You dont need it browned just softened and infuded into the oil.
Add the garlic anc chilly. Cook for two minutes. Tip in all the vegetables and fold everything in.
Add the rice and sprinkle the pepper, red chili powder and garam masala. Fold in the rice. Add twice as much water. Cover with the lid and let it cook.
Toss the sliced mushrooms with red chili powder and garam masala. When the rice is done, heat the oil in a frying pan. Fry the mushrooms till browned.
Mix the mushrooms into the rice. Sprinkle lemon juice and a handful of chopped coriander leaves.
Toss everything together and serve.
Ingredients:
1 leek sliced
2 onions sliced
6 gloves garlic chopped
1 green chilly chopped
1 red bell peppers sliced
1 yellow bell peppers sliced
2 carrots sliced
6 green beans sliced
1 packet of button mushrooms sliced
1 and 1/4 cup rice
1tsp pepper
2tsp red chili powder
2tsp garam masala
salt to taste
Oil for cooking
Water for cooking rice
Juice of half a lemon
Coriander leaves chopped
Method:
Switch on your cooker. Add the oil and wait for two minutes.
Add the leek and onions and fry for 6 to 7 minutes. You dont need it browned just softened and infuded into the oil.
Add the garlic anc chilly. Cook for two minutes. Tip in all the vegetables and fold everything in.
Add the rice and sprinkle the pepper, red chili powder and garam masala. Fold in the rice. Add twice as much water. Cover with the lid and let it cook.
Toss the sliced mushrooms with red chili powder and garam masala. When the rice is done, heat the oil in a frying pan. Fry the mushrooms till browned.
Mix the mushrooms into the rice. Sprinkle lemon juice and a handful of chopped coriander leaves.
Toss everything together and serve.
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