Recipe: Perfect Vegetable Mint Pulao

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Vegetable Mint Pulao. Vegetable pulao is an Indian main course dish made with rice, spices, and vegetables. In my recipe, I used mint and coriander leaves for the extra flavor. It is an aromatic food that is very nutritious due to the best ingredients used in making the dish.

This is an easy to prepare weeknight pulao recipe because of its ease to be prepared.

This pulao has carrots, beans, peas and to make it minty, either fresh or dried mint leaves are added that adds in a whiff of.

Goes well with raitha or any deep fried sides.

You can cook Vegetable Mint Pulao using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vegetable Mint Pulao

1. You need 1 cup of Basmati rice washed and kept aside.

2. You need 1 of large onion finely sliced.

3. It’s 1 of tomato finely chopped.

4. Prepare 1 teaspoon of ginger-garlic chopped.

5. Prepare 1 of medium sized potato cut to small cubes.

6. It’s 1/2 cup of green peas.

7. It’s 1 tablespoon of chopped carrots.

8. Prepare 1 tablespoon of desi ghee.

9. You need 2 inch of cinnamon.

10. Prepare 1 of Bay leaf.

11. It’s 1 of black cardamom.

12. It’s 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds.

13. You need 2-3 of peppercorns and 2 cloves.

14. You need 1/2 teaspoon of mint powder.

15. It’s to taste of Salt.

16. You need 1 teaspoon of red chilli powder.

17. It’s 1/4 teaspoon of turmeric powder.

18. You need of Fresh mint and coriander leaves chopped for ganish.

19. Prepare 5-6 strands of saffron soaked in warm milk.

How to Make Mint Veg Pulao.

Grind ingredients in a blender until smooth.

Cook the rice so that each grain is separate.

In a heavy bottomed pan, add ghee and saute the onion for few minutes.

Vegetable Mint Pulao instructions

1. Heat ghee in a pot. Add cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, peppercorns, cloves, black cardamom, and bay leaf..

2. Once the whole spices starts to crackle, add sliced onions. Fry till golden brown..

3. Add the chopped vegetables and chopped ginger garlic. Saute well..

4. Add chopped tomatoes, salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and mint powder. Cook vegetables for 5-6 minutes. Add half of the saffron milk to it..

5. Add Basmati rice and mix it well the vegetables..

6. Add 1 and a half cup of water and cook rice and vegetables together. Add saffron milk. Keep the strands separate..

7. The amount of water to be added in a Pulao or Biryani majorly depends on the quality of rice you are using. Add only that much amount of water in which the rice gets cooked and not overcook or gets mushy..

8. Once the rice is cooked, remove it from the flame and add freshly chopped mint and coriander leaves. Serve hot with Boondi raita and pickle..

Add the vegetables one by one.

Mint (pudina in hindi), is a fragrant herb Used in Indian cuisine in different ways.

This simple and easy mint pulao has mint leaves as one of the main ingredients.

Besides mint leaves some coriander leaves, coconut, onion, green chilies and whole spices are also added.

Mint pulao is really easy to make because there isn't as much sautéing involved.