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Simple Vegetable Pulav

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It is raining here heavily for the past 4 days. My family wanted hot vegetable pulao for lunch. So I prepared this easy pulao with potatoes in tomato gravy as side dish, the recipe for which I will be blogging soon. If you have the vegetables ready, this pulao can be done in a few minutes time. It is less spicy and tastes awesome. Since I do not like spending long hours in the kitchen, my recipes are mostly simple and easy to prepare.


vegetable rice How to make Simple Vegetable Rice

Ingredients needed

Basmati Rice -1 cup (soak it in water for 15-20 minutes and drain the water)
Carrot -1 big
Beans -6
Cauliflower – 4-5 florets (optional)
Potato -1
Onion -1
Peas – handful
Ginger – chopped 2 tsp
Green chilli -2
Pudina/mint leaves –handful
Lemon -1/2 a lemon
Oil -1 tbsp
Salt as required

For the seasoning

Cinnamon -1 inch piece
Cloves -4

Easy Vegetable Pulao pulav is done with ordinary raw rice variety

Method

Cut all the vegetables lengthwise and keep it aside.

Heat oil and add the ingredients for seasoning.

Sauté onion till they turn light pink, add ginger and all the vegetables including mint leaves, saute for a few minutes.

Then add rice, needed salt, 2 cups of boiling water and mix well.

Squeeze juice of half a lemon and pressure cook for 2 whistles.

veg pulaoPulao using basmati rice, potato-tomato gravy & salad

After it is done, garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with raita or papads or any gravy of your choice. Pulao can be done with raw rice also, though tastes great with basmati rice.

Will meet all you again with a wonderful post, till then Bye from Padhu. Take care.

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  13. Krishna

    Dear Padhu

    Your recipes are very good and have lots of variety .We will try it and let u know the feedback .Keep up the Good work .Amma also had a look and congratulated you for ur work . We will keep going through ur blog regularly .

    Krishna

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  29. Babli

    Thanks a lot for visiting my blog and for your lovely comment. Now I have become your follower so I will be visiting your blog hereafter.
    I liked your blog very much. I appreciate for your wonderful presentation with mouth watering picture of vegetable pulav. Oh! it looks delicious.

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  36. Oraphan

    What a beautiful presentation! I love this kind of simple recipe, it looks and sounds so wonderful. I'll definitely give it a try very soon. Thanks for the recipe, Padhu!

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  40. Unknown

    Dear akka,
    I tried this with potatao gravy came out good but rice is little mushy akka.By mistakely I put on 3 whistles instead of 2.it tastes good.I love it akka thanks for ur dishes.
    Mymoon

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  43. Padmambika

    Hey Padhu..Im a great fan of your blog. the first thing i love is your name. cos im Padmambika and my people call me Paddu too. :). I have made and tried lot of your receipes. infact you are my Guru. 🙂 I was a novice and now my friends ask me tips. God Bless and Thank you.

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  46. rima

    Y0ur recipes are very good, I would like to ask that many people ,often mention adding jeera to pulao taka ,among other spices.but I find thst adding jeera to veg pula reduces its taste to a very normal dish

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