Vegetables Nuts Pulao Recipe for Toddlers and Kids
Vegetables Nuts Pulao - A quick one pot meal made with rice, nuts, and vegetables. Perfect for lunchbox.
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Ingredients
- Basmati Rice or any rice - 1 cup
- Big Onion - 1 medium sized
- Tomato - 1 medium sized
- Green chilli - 1 optional
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 Tsp
- Vegetables* - ¾ cup chopped
- Garam masala powder - ½ tsp
- Red chili powder - ½ tsp
- Coriander leaves - a handful
- Mint leaves - a handful
- Coconut milk - ½ cup
- Nuts - 2 tbsp cashews & almonds
- Lemon Juice - 1 Tsp
- Water - 1 cup
- Salt - as required
To temper
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
- Bay leaves - 1 small
- Cinnamon - ¼ inch piece
- Cloves - 2
- Cardamom - 1
- Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
* I used 1 carrot, 10 beans, a handful of peas and 1 small potato
Instructions
Preparation
- Slice onions, chop tomatoes finely. Wash and Chop all vegetables into bite size pieces. Slit green chilies. Roughly chop coriander & mint leaves. Set aside. Wash rice and soak it in water for 20 minutes.
Method
- Heat a pressure cooker with ghee. Add all the items to temper. Let it crackle. Then add onions along with ginger garlic paste. Saute them nicely until golden brown.
- Once onions become transparent, add tomatoes and green chilies (if using). Fry tomatoes until the raw smell of tomatoes leaves and becomes mushy.
- Now add chopped coriander and mint leaves together. Saute it until it shrinks and raw smell completely leaves.
- Then Add chopped veggies, red chili powder, garam masala powder, and required salt. Give a quick stir. Then add soaked rice and mix well.
- Add coconut milk and required water. Bring it to a boil. Then close the lid of a pressure cooker and cook everything in a medium flame for three whistles.
- In the meantime, ghee fry the nuts until golden. Once the pressure releases, open the cooker and fluff the rice with a spoon slowly and add ghee fried nuts & lemon juice!
Nutrition
Serving: 2g