Ingredients:

Chopped Carrot, beans and potato – 2 cups

Overnight soaked Channa – 1 cup

Rice – 2 cups

Onion – 3

Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp

Clove, Cinnamom – 3 each

Green Chilli – 3 nos sliced

Oil – 5 tsp

Salt – to taste

Water – to cook rice

Method:

1. Grind 2 onions and keep it aside.

2. Heat oil in pan add one chopped onion and add the cinnamom and clove and fry. Also add the sliced green chilli.

Instant Vegetable Rice Recipe

3. Now add the ground onion and ginger garlic paste and saute.

4. Add the vegetables and rice and fry for few mins.

5. Add the required amount of water and add salt.

6. Add one tsp ghee finally before closing the pan.

7. Allow it for 2 whistles and open after steam subsides.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with onion raita or cucumber raita.

Ingredients:

Basmati rice – 2 cup

Water – 4 cup

Corn – 2 cups

Garam Masala powder – 2 tsp

Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp

Chilli powder – 2 tsp

Salt – to taste

Oil – 2 tablespoon

Coconut milk – 2 cup

Tomato Paste – 2 cup

Finely chopped Onion – 1 cup

Cooked Carrot, beans and peas – 2 cup

For Masala:

Cinnamom – 2

Poppy seeds – 1 tablespoon

Dry Chilli – 6

Jeera – 2 tsp

Coriander seeds – 1 tablespoon

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Garlic – 6

For frying:

Elachi – 4

Cinnamom – 4

Clove – 4

Jeera powder – 2 1/2 tsp

Bay leaves – 4

Butter – 1 table spoon

Method:

1. Grind the masala ingredients and keep it ready.

2. Take a tawa, heat oil add grinded masala and saute till raw flavour fades.

3. Add the coconut milk, garam masala powder, pepper powder, chilli powder along with tomato paste and allow it to boil for sometime till it becomes a thick paste.

4. Take another tawa, heat oil, add onion, cooked vegetables, cooked corn, salt and saute.

5. Soak the rice for 10 mins.

6. Take a pan, add butter along with frying ingredients and fry for sometime and add the soaked rice and little salt and add water and allow it to cook.

7. Take a baking bowl, spread the cooked rice, overlay with cooked vegetables and the third layer be the masala prepared and the final layer be the chopped coriander leaves.

8. Close the bowl with silver foil and bake it in oven for 20 mins at 180 degree centigrade.

Corn Pulao

Rich Corn pulao ready.

Ingredients:

Rice – 1 cup

Potato – 3 Big

Pudina or Mint leaves – 1 cup

green chilli – 3 – 4

ginger, cinnamom – a piece each

clove – 2

Onion – 1/2 cup chopped

Salt – to taste

Oil – as required

Method:

1. Cook rice separately and keep it.

2. Cook potato and cut them to cubes.

3. Grind mint leaves, green chilli, ginger and little salt and make it to fine paste.

4. Add 2 tsp oil to pan, add cinnamom, clove and saute.

5. Add the onion and fry till they become pink.

6. Now add the grinded paste and the potato cubes and mix well.

7. Add the cooked rice and sprinker salt and mix well.

Potato Biryani

Tasty potato mint biryani is ready. Garnish with fried cashews or with mint leaves.

Ingredients:

Cooked Rice – 3 cups

Potato – 3

Fresh Peas – 1 cup

Onion – 2

Garlic – 4

Chilli powder – 2 tsp

Turmeric – a pinch

Salt – as required

Oil, mustard – 1 tsp each

Cinnamom – a piece

Clove – 2

Method:

1. Cook potatoes and keep them sliced or half mashed.

2. Cook fresh peas without adding much water.

3. Get the rice cooked and keep them separately.

4. Now take a tawa, add oil, mustard, cinnamom, clove and saute.

5. Add the onions, garlic and allow it until raw flavor fades.

6. Add the potatoes, peas and add turmeric, chilli powder, required salt and mix well.

7. Leave it for 2-3 mins so that the taste blends well.

8. Finally add the cooked rice, mix and serve.

Easy and delicious potato peas pulao is ready.

Ingredients:

Rice – 2 cups

Toor Dhal – 1/2 cup

Small onions (madras onions) – 100 gms

Dry red chilli – 3-4

Sambar Powder – 2-3 tsp

Oil, mustard – 1/2 tsp each

Salt – as required

curry leaves – to garnish

Water – 5-6 cups

Method:

1. Take a pan, heat little oil and add mustard and the allow it to pop.

2. Now add the red chilli, madras onions and curry leaves and fry them for few mins.

3. Add the required amount of water that will be needed to cook the rice and the toor dhal.

4. Allow it to boil and then add the rice and dhal.

5. Finally add salt,sambar powder and turmeric and mix well.

6. Close the pan and leave it for 2 whistles.

7. Open the pan after steam subsides and mix well. If interested add a tsp of ghee and mix well before serving.

Tasty and easy rice khichdi ready. The taste adds when served with Spicy brinjal curry.