Peas Pulao Recipe
Ingredients
- Uncooked rice- 1 cup
- Fresh peas- 3/4 cup
- Mint leaves- 1/4 cup
- Ginger- 1" piece
- Green chillies- 2 no.
- Salt- 1 tsp
Seasoning ingredients
- Cinnamon - 2" long
- Cloves- 6 no.
- Star anise- 1 no.
- Black cardamom- 2 no.
- Bay leaf- 2 no.
- Cooking oil- 4 tsp
Instructions
Preparation
- Soak rice for half an hour and drain the water. Keep aside till use.
Method
- Coarsely crush the ginger and green chillies together using mortar and pestle. Chop the mint leaves roughly and keep aside. Heat a pressure cooker adding cooking oil and all the seasoning ingredients.
- As the cloves start to puff up, include crushed ginger and green chillies. Saute for a while and throw in chopped mint leaves. As they wilt add fresh peas and stir for a minute.
- Next add drained rice, 2 cups of water and salt. Pressure cook for 3 whistles in medium flame and switch off. When the pressure subsides naturally, open the lid and fluff.
- Mild spiced peas pulao is ready to serve with any raita of your choice.
Notes
- If you like to kick up the spice, you can include black pepper too.
- Mint leaves give very nice flavor and taste to this pulao. So do not skip it.
- I have used normal Sona massori rice, you can use basmati too. In that case you may need little 1.5 cups of water.