Vegetable Pulao

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‘Vegetable Pulao’ is an all time family favorite!  It is a North Indian vegetarian rice dish.  Here I am posting a simple method to make a really tasty ‘Vegetable Pulao’.  Serve it with any chicken, mutton or veg side dish or simply enjoy it with raita, pickle and pappad!

I am sending this recipe to Priya for the event “AFAM- Bell Peppers” which was initiated by Maheswari.

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Ingredients

Basmati rice – 2 cups

Water – 3 1/2 cups

Frozen green peas – 1/2 cup

Green capsicum – 1 cubed

Carrots – 2 cubed

Potato – 1 cubed

Tomatoes – 3 sliced

Onion – 1 sliced

Green chillies – 5 slit

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp

Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp chopped

Garam masala – 1 tsp

Cardamom – 3

Cinnamon – 2″ piece

Cloves – 3

Bay leaves – 2

Salt – to taste

Oil – 2 tbsp

Ghee – 2 tsp

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Method

Wash and soak the rice in water for 20 minutes.  Heat oil and ghee together in a pressure cooker.  Add the whole spices and fry for a minute.  Then add the onions and green chillies and fry till the onions are light brown.  Put the ginger garlic paste and fry.  Now add the tomatoes and fry well.  Add all the vegetables and garam masala.  Saute for about 5 minutes.  Strain the rice and add to the cooker.  Mix well and add salt.  Pour water over it.  Close the lid and when the first whisle comes, reduce the flame and cook for 4 minutes.  Switch off the flame and let it cool.  Open the cooker and add coriander leaves.  Serve it with your favorite side dish.  Cheers!

Related Recipes:

  1. Peas Pulao
  2. Chicken Pulao
  3. Special Ghee Rice
  4. Paneer Supreme

Posted under North Indian Veg, Rice Dishes .

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21 Responses to “Vegetable Pulao”

  1. Padma UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Palav looks so delicious n colorful Lissie :)

    June 30th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
  2. Ann SRI LANKA Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 Says:

    Veg Pulao is our fav too Lissie..NUtritious and kids friendly..yours look mouthwatering !

    June 30th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
  3. sangi UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 8.0 Says:

    Pulao looks colourful… :lol:

    June 30th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
  4. trupti UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    pulao looks delicious & easy to make

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    June 30th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
  5. Priya FRANCE Windows XP Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 Says:

    Vegetable pulao looks fabulous, my all time favourite too…Thanks for sending pulao to AFAM!

    June 30th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
  6. SuperChef UNITED STATES Windows Vista Internet Explorer 8.0 Says:

    my favourite..though ive never tried adding bell peppers to it!

    July 1st, 2009 at 7:07 am
  7. lissie INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Thank you Padma, Ann and Sangi! Please give it a try and let me know… :roll:

    July 1st, 2009 at 6:08 pm
  8. lissie INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Trupti and Priya, thanks a lot! keep on visiting… :grin:

    July 1st, 2009 at 6:10 pm
  9. lissie INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Superchef, adding bell peppers doesn’t make any difference in taste. next time you try it and see… :razz:

    July 1st, 2009 at 6:13 pm
  10. Anu UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Yummy pulav… Spicy and colorful :)

    July 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 am
  11. lissie INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Thank you Anu for your support! ;-)

    July 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 am
  12. Pooja UNITED STATES Windows XP Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 Says:

    Aww my favourite pulao! Though I prefer non veg compared to veg dishes, veg pulao always stands apart! Thanks for dropping by my blog. You have a lovely blog :)

    July 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 am
  13. preethi UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 Says:

    Looks so good! You have lovely blog, nice recipes…

    July 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 am
  14. Preeti JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    I love pulav any time and love them with raita…pulav looks great dear..

    July 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
  15. lissie INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Pooja and Preethi, welcome to my blog! see you often… :grin:

    July 3rd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
  16. lissie INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Says:

    Thank you Preeti! hope you will try it this weekend, dear… :razz:

    July 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
  17. Muskaan Shah UNITED STATES Windows Vista Google Chrome 3.0.195.32 Says:

    Vegetable Pulao looks absolutely authentic…well hopped in first time in your blogspace..you have very good collection there..

    November 9th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
  18. vibhuti INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 Says:

    Hi. i m a little bit lazy for cooking & my bf is likes to eat spicy food. i tried this vegetable pulao for him n i got so many complements for the first time. thanks a lot for this easy n instant recipe……..

    March 25th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
  19. Namitha Nirmal Thomas INDIA Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8.0 Says:

    Dear Ma’am,

    I have just 2years experience in cooking. An LKG student in this feild. I love cooking and i tried ur veg pulao yesterday. And it was wonderful, my hus liked a lot. U r Great and thax a lot

    September 25th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
  20. lissie INDIA Windows 7 Mozilla Firefox 3.6.10 Says:

    Hi Namitha,

    Thanks a lot for trying ‘Veg Pulao’! Glad to hear that you and your hus liked it.. :)

    In fact, my intention is to help young women like you who are novices in cooking. Please try my other recipes too and let me know about the out come.

    cheers,
    Lissie

    September 26th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
  21. Sandhya Opera Mini 9.80 Says:

    I m crazy 4 pulav i want to eat right now!

    December 16th, 2011 at 4:36 pm

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