Mint Pulav
Ingredients:
- basmati rice 1 cup
- potatoes 2 diced
- peas(shelled) 1/4 cup
- mint leaves 1 small bunch
- grated fresh coconut 3 tbsp
- green chillies 6 or 7
- ginger 1/2 inch piece
- turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
- lemon 1/2
- salt to taste
- cardamoms 2
- cloves 2 or 3
- bay leaf 1
- ghee enough for frying
Method:
Wash and soak rice for 1/2 hour. Pressure cook with 2 cups of water. Allow it to cool. Separate the grains. Add a tsp of ghee while separating the grians. Pressure cook potatoes with skin and then peel. Dice into cubes. Cook peas separatley. Cut onions into
1 inch pieces. Fry mint leaves in little oil and then grind it along with coconut, green chillies, ginger and turmeric powder. Heat rest of the ghee or oil in a broad frying pan and fry garam masala spices and onions. Add ground paste with potatoes and peas. Stir
constantly in medium flame till raw smell goes. Add powdered salt and cooled, separated rice to this. Mix well in a high flame till rice becomes steaming hot. Squeeze lemon juice, mix gently and remove from fire. Serve hot with onion raita.