Veg Pulav

Veg pulav is a healthy food full of flavors. Same spices can be made with different combination for a unique recipe this is one such recipe.I wonder if buttermilk can ever  bring a flavor to a veg and the answer is a big yesss.Buttermilk's sourness enhances the taste and blends well together. Try this recipe and enjoy.....

Serving for 2

Ingredients

Vegetables
Carrots - 2 nos
Potatoes cubed - 2 nos
Beans -- 12 nos
Peas --1 cup
Cauliflower - 10 florets

Tomatoes --1 nos ( Chopped to small pieces)

Basmathi rice --1 1/2 cups

Onion( chopped) --1 cup( 1 small size onion)              

Ginger garlic paste -- 4 tsp

Greenchili--  6 nos

Bay leaf -- 3 nos

Cinnamon  --1 stick

Cloves -- 3 nos

Fennel seeds -- 1 tsp
Buttermilk  -- 2 cup

Lemon juice  -- 1 tsp

Garam masala -- a pinch
Mint -- few
Corrinder leaves -- few

Oil -- 3 tsp

Salt -- 1 tsp

To Grind

Ginger garlic paste ( 8 garlic+1 inch ginger)

Method

• Add oil in  a pan, when hot add cloves,cinnamon,  fennel seeds and bay leaves.
• Add Onions, Chili, mint  and grounded paste stir untill raw smell disappear.
• Add tomatoes  and saute for few min. 
• Add chopped veg  with salt along with buttermilk until veg are 75%cooked.
• Add  coriander leaves ,mint and garam masala and cook until buttermilk is absorbed by vegetables.
• Add basmathi rice  ( soaked for 10 min and fry with ghee in a pan to take out the moisture).
• Add lemon juice and mix well.
• Water for any basmathi cooking is 1:11/2.  1 cup of rice with 11/2 cup of water
• Pressure cook for  one whistle.
• Serve hot with Raita.