VEGETABLE PULAO:

INGREDIENTS:

Rice
Cabbage
Carrots
Beans
Potatoes
Salt as per taste
Red Chillie Powder
Turmeric Powder
Dhania Powder
Tejpatta (Bay Leaf)
Cloves
Cinnamon
Green Peas
Oil
Water

METHOD:

• Soak rice for 10 mins
• Chop Carrots and Potatoes,Beans into medium size pieces
• Wash and Cut the Cabbage into length wise
• Take a Pressure cooker and oil to it
• As oil gets heated add Cloves, Cinnamon and Bay Leaf and mix well
• Add Chopped Carrots, Cabbage, Potatoes,Beans and Green peas and mix all the vegetables
• Mix it for 2 mins as water comes out from these vegetables
• Add Soaked rice and mix well
• Add Salt as per taste, Red Chillie Powder, Turmeric Powder, Dhania Powder and mix well
• Finally add water to it.The proportion is 1:2.For 1 cup of Rice add 2 cups of water to it
• Close the cooker of the lid and let 2 whistles come and simmer it for 5 mins
• Garnish the Pulao with Mint Leaves or Roasted Cashewnuts

Vegetable Pulao is ready and Serve it with Raita (Curds)
Optional: you can add other vegetables too .

RAITA:

Curds (Yogurt)
Onions
Tomatoes
Salt as per taste
Milk
Black Pepper Powder

METHOD:

• Chop Onions finely and tomatoes finally
• Take Curds in a vessel and whisk it
• Add Salt as per taste, half a cup of milk and black pepper powder and mix well
• Finally add chopped onions and tomatoes and put into this curd mixture.
• Garnish it with Coriander Leaves

Raita is ready and serve it with Vegetable Pulao


 

UPMA:

INGREDIENTS:

Sooji (Rawa)
Onions
Carrots
Curry Leaves
Green Peas
Turmeric Powder
Red Chillie Powder
Salt as per taste
Water
Oil
Rai (Mustard Seeds)
Jeera (cumin Seeds)
Coriander Leaves

METHOD:

• Saute the Sooji for 2 mins on low flame (without water) and take out in a plate to cool
• Chop finely Onions and cut Carrots in a medium size pieces
• Take a pan add and oil into it
• As oil gets heated add Rai (Mustard Seeds), Jeera (cumin seeds), Curry Leaves and mix well
• Add chopped onions, carrots and green peas and mix well
• Add salt as per taste
• Add Turmeric Powder,Red Chillie Powder and mix it
• Add Water to this mixture and simmer it for 10 mins so that all vegetables cooks well
• There is proportion of water to sooji.For 1 cup of sooji add 2 cups of water.
• Finally add sauted sooji to this water mixture and mix well without lumps
• You will note as you mix the oil comes out from sooji
• Garnish it with Coriander Leaves

Upma is ready and Serve hot with Tomato Sauce or Ketchup or Mint chutney
Optional: you can even add some Ghee to it.