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Indian Cooking Recipe : How to Make Spicy Pulav

Ingredients for the Recipe

  • 1½ teacups uncooked rice
  • 5 brinjals
  • 5 onions
  • 5 small potatoes
  • 1 teacup boiled green peas
  • 5 tbsp oil
  • salt to taste

To be mixed together into a spicy mixture :

  • ½ grated coconut
  • 4 tsp dhana-jira powder
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 2 tsp chilli powder
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 1½ teacups coriander, chopped
  • a pinch asafoetida
  • salt to taste

Recipe (How to Make):

  1. Boil the rice. Each grain of the cooked rice should be separate. Drain and cool.
  2. Make 4 vertical slits in the brinjals, onions and potatoes and stuff with the masala mixture.
  3. A little mixture will be left over.
  4. Heat the oil, put the stuffed vegetables and salt and very little water.
  5. Pressure cook or cover and cook till it becomes soft.
  6. Combine the cooked rice, remaining spicy mixture, green peas and salt.
  7. Put the cooked vegetables and mix well.
  8. Ready to serve hot.