One morning
I woke up really late. My hubby had to leave for work in half an hour and I was
perplexed as to what lunch should I pack for him. Obviously, there wasn’t
enough time to do anything laborious. In such situations, I generally rely on quick
easy dishes made with rice; be it khichdi or pulao.
But this
time, I didn’t want to make either of the above. Didn’t feel like using any
spices and wanted the cutting part to be minimal. I opened my refrigerator,
chose the veggies I’d be using and the rest is as follows :)
Ingredients
Carrots – 1 cup,
chopped
Beans – ½ cup,
chopped
Green Peas –
¼ cup, either frozen or fresh
Mint Leaves –
2 to 3 tbsps. / ¼ cup, chopped
Coriander
Leaves – 3 to 4 tbsps. / ¼ cup, chopped
Chilies – 3 to
4 medium sized, cut vertically
Cumin Seeds –
½ tsp.
Asafetida –
1/8 tsp. (optional)
Oil/ Ghee –
1 ½ to 2 tbsps.
Rice – 200
grams/ 1 ¼ cup
Water – 2 ½ cups
Salt – to taste
Note – The amount
of veggies used can be altered as per one’s convenience.
Method
1. In a pressure cooker, put oil and add
cumin seeds once the oils heats up a little.
2. When the cumin seeds change color,
add chilies, carrots, beans, green peas, mint leaves and coriander leaves.
3. Sauté the vegetables for about 5 – 7 minutes
on medium flame.
4. In the meanwhile, wash the rice and
keep ready. I used sona masoori rice, but the dish tastes even better when made
with basmati rice.
5. Add the washed rice and water in to
the pressure cooker.
6. Add salt and mix all the contents well.
7. Pressure-cook the rice.
8. When done, take it off the flame and
serve hot with any raita.
Lovely Neha..! get more veg..! and you will have me jotting down all your recipes..
ReplyDeleteThanks girl..! Yep.. Working on that.. :)
DeleteNaice ! What is the ratio of water and rice you use to pressure cook the rice.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you can add Nutrela to this recipe to pack it with proteins :)- Swati
Ratio is 1:2.. Same as that for plain rice..
DeleteAnd yea.. Nutrela is a good option.. See you have ideas.. You too start a blog..! :) ;)
oh great stuff Neha.... rediscovering FOOD! Hope to see you on TV soon! ;)
ReplyDelete- Sankett
Sanket.. Hahaha.. TV.. Well, thank you..! :)
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