Posted on 19 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Raw Rice – 2 cups
- Coconut Milk – 1 cup
- Big Onion – 1
- Lemon Juice – 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric Powder – 1/4 teaspoon
- Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
To grind:
- Pudina leaves – 2 cups
- Coriander leaves – 1/2 cup
- Green chillies – 2 to 3 Nos
- Fresh ginger – 1″ piece
- Garlic cloves – 2 Nos
For seasoning:
- Oil – 4 tablespoon
- Cinnamon stick – 2 small pieces
- Cloves – 2 Nos
- Cardamon – 2 Nos
- Bay Leaf – A small piece
- Fennel seeds (Sombu) – 1 teaspoon
Method:
- Wash and soak the rice in water for about 15 minutes.Chop the onion.
- Grind Pudina, Coriander leaves, green chillies, ginger and garlic to a fine paste.Put a pressure cooker on the stove and add the oil.
- When it is hot add cinnamon stick, cloves, cardamom, bay leaf and fennel seeds. Add chopped onion and fry till it become transparant.
- Add Pudina leaves paste, turmeric powder and salt and stir fry for few minutes.
- Drain the excess water from rice and add to the seasoning. Mix well. Add coconut milk and three cups of water (Total measure of coconut milk and water together should be four cups).
- Stir once again and close with lid.Pressure cook it for three whistles.When it is cooled, add lemon juice and mix gently.
- Garnish with few fresh Mint leaves and lemon wedges.Serve hot
Posted on 19 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Basmati Rice – 2 cups
- Green Peas – 1 cup
- Jeera – 2 teaspoons
- Bay leaves – few
- Ghee – 4 tablespoons
- Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Method:
- Soak rice in water for about 15 minutes.
- In a pressure cooker put the ghee and heat it.
- Add jeera and bay leaves and fry for a while. Then add green peas and stir fry for few seconds. And then add soaked rice and 4 cups of water along with salt.
- Mix well. Close with lid and pressure cook for two to three whistles.
Posted on 18 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Basmati Rice – 1 1/2 cups
- 2 red onions chopped finely
- 3 tomatoes – blanched & pureed
- 1 carrot – cut into thin sticks
- 1 potato – peeled & cut into thin sticks
- 1 cup cauliflower florets
- 1 green bell pepper – chopped
- 1/2 cup green peas – fresh/frozen
- 2 green chillies – slit lengthwise
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Garam masala
- Salt as per taste
- 2 tbsp Desi ghee/oil
- Chopped cilantro/fresh coriander – for garnish
- 2 tsp lemon juice
To Grind:
- 1 small red onion
- 2 tbsp grated coconut – fresh/frozen
- 2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- 4-5 dry red chillies
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 tsp fennel seeds/saunf
- A small stick of cinnamon
- 4 cloves
- 4-5 black peppercorns
- 4 green cardamoms
- 1 star anise
Method:
- Clean Basmati rice in several changes of water. Drain & keep aside for about 15 minutes. Heat a tsp of ghee in a frying pan & fry the rice till fragrant. This takes about a minute.
- Pressure cook rice or cook on stove top with water in the proportion of 1:1 or 1:1.25 depending on the quality of rice, such that each grain is separate. Set aside & allow it to cool completely.
- Grind all the ingredients mentioned in the list into a smooth paste adding little water.
- Heat Ghee in a large wok, add cumin seeds, bay leaves, turmeric powder & green chillies. allow them to sizzle & add chopped onions. Fry onions till they turn pink.
- Add chopped carrots, potatoes & saute for a while. When half done add cauliflower florets, bell peppers & green peas one by one until cooked. The vegetables should retain their crunch.
- Add pureed tomatoes & bring the mixture to a boil. Add lemon juice & salt as per taste.
- Add rice & Garam Masala & fluff with fork & garnish with chopped cilantro/coriander leaves.
Posted on 17 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Rice ( Basmati) – 1 cup
- Onion – 1
- Tomato – 3
- Cinnamon – 1 inch stick
- Cloves – 2
- Brinji leaves – a small leaf
- Fennel seeds – ½ teaspoon
- Curry leaves – a sprig
- Ginger garlic paste – ½ spoon
- Turmeric powder – a pinch
- Masala powder or Chili powder – ½ to 1 spoon (depends on the spiciness of the Chili powder)
- Salt – to taste
- Ghee or Oil- as required
Method:
- Cook rice with Salt and keep it aside.
- Slice Onion lengthwise and Chop Tomato into small pieces. Keep them aside.
- Heat Oil or Ghee in a pan. Add Cinnamon, Cloves, Brinji leaf and Saffron. Once it started sizzling add Curry leaves and Onion.
- Fry Onion till it turns into golden brown. Add Ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes.
- Add Turmeric powder, Masala powder or Chili powder, Salt and fry till the raw smell of masala goes. Add little salt since we’ve already salt to the rice.
- Add chopped Tomatoes and fry till it becomes soft. Mash Tomatoes while you saute it.
- Add the cooked Rice now and mix well with masala and Tomato mix. Remove from heat.
Posted on 15 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Prawns – 1/2 kilo
- Onions – 3
- Green chillies – 8
- Ginger – 1 Inch piece
- Garlic – 15 small pods
- Somph – 2 Teaspoon
- Cinnamon – 1/2 Inch piece 2
- Cloves – 6
- Ghee – 200 gms
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 Teaspoon
- Coconut – 1
- Pulao rice – 1/2 kilo
- Cashewnuts – 50 gms (25)
- Pudhina (mint leaves) – 1 Large bunch
- Bay leaves – 2
- Cardamom – 3
- Salt – To taste
Method:
- Wash and clean prawns well. Mix with the turmeric powder and 1 teaspoon salt and boil for 10 minutes till well cooked remove and keep.
- Fry green chilies in 2 teaspoons of ghee.
- Then grind and keep.Crush, ginger, garlic, somph, cinnamon and cloves, using a little water and keep aside.
- Grate the coconut, extract milk to make up 1 litre of coconut milk keep aside.Clean pudhina (mint) take the leaves and keep.
- Heat a heavy bottom vessel, put the ghee, then the cinnamon leaves and cardamom, then put the cashewnuts, fry till golden brown in colour.
- Then add cut onions.
- Fry the onions for a while add ground green chillies, fry and then add the crushed masala. Fry well, add the coconut milk, salt and turmeric powder.
- Cover and let it boil.When the mixture is boiling, add well cleaned pulao rice.
- Cover and cook till rice is half cooked.Then add cooked prawns, cook on low fire and keep the vessel covered with a little hot charcoal on top.Keep stirring slowly from time to time till the pulao is done.
Posted on 11 June 2009 by Sarmila
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