Vegetable Pulao/Pulav

Vegetable pulao is the easiest one for me to prepare at busy days. This tastes good and even my kid loves it as it is not spicy at all.

Ingredients

• Rice - 1 cup (Basmati preferred)
• Vegetables - 1/2 cup (carrot, beans, corn etc... of choice)
• Onion - 1 medium sized
• Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
• Garam masala - 1/4 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp(minimum)
• Mint - few
• Coriander - few
• Chilli - 1
• Cloves - 2
• Bay leaf - 1
• Star anise - 1
• Cinnamon - 1 small stick
• Water - 1 and 1/2 cup

Cooking Steps

• Cut onions and vegetables and keep aside. 
• Soak basmati rice for 20 mins and keep aside.  

• Add oil in a pressure cooker and add cloves, bayleaf, star anise, cinnamon to temper. 
• Add ginger garlic paste and onions together and fry till onions turn transparent. 
• Add vegetables and give a quick stir.

• Add 1.5 cups of water and bring it to boil till rolling. 
• Add Rice and salt and close the lid of pressure cooker and cook for a whistle. 

• Once the presure leaves out and cools down, Open the lid and fluff with a fork(just to get rice seperated) and add ghee to the rice. 
• Garnish with coriander and mint leaves and stir it.

My 2 cents

• You can substitute coconut milk for water which will be too good.
• You can use sona masoori rice instead of basmati. But add 2 cups of water/coconut milk and no presoaking is required for sona masoori rice.