Coriander pulao recipe
Coriander Pulao is a fragrant and flavorful rice dish made with fresh coriander leaves, green chilies, and mild spices. The green herb paste gives the pulao a vibrant color and refreshing taste. It's a quick and wholesome meal, often paired with raita, salad, or a simple curry.
Ingredients
To grind
- Coriander leaves a small bunch
- Green chili 3
- Coconut 1 cup
Other ingredients
- Basmati rice 1 cup
- Oil 1 tbsp
- Ghee 2 tsp
- Cardamom 2 pods
- Cinnamon a small piece
- Green chili 1
- Ginger garlic paste 1 tsp
- Onion 1
- Water 1 cup
- Salt as needed
- Green peas 1/4 cup
Instructions
- Wash the basmati rice and soak it in 1 cup water for 10 minutes.
- Grind the coriander leaves, green chili and coconut into a fine paste using the 3/4 the cup of soaked water.
- Squeeze out the extract and strain it and keep aside.
- Add remaining soaked water and grind the mixture once again. Squeeze out the extract and discard the residue.
- We need only the coriander coconut milk.
- In a pressure cooker, add oil + ghee. Add the green chili(slit), cinnamon and cardamom. You can add 1 bay leaf too.
- Add ginger garlic paste to this.
- Sauté for a minute in low flame.
- chop the onions into thin slices. Add it to the cooker.
- Sauté for a minute. Add salt to this.
- Add green peas to this . If you want, you can add cubed potatoes too. Paneer cubes can also be added.
- Add the soaked rice to this and saute for a minute.
- Add the Coriander coconut extract to this and cover the cooker.
- Pressure cooks for a whistle and keep in a very low flame for 5 minutes.
- Open the cooker and gently mix the rice.
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