Name: Methi Pulav
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 3 cups Fenugreek leaves (chopped) (Methi/Uluva); 3 cups Basmati Rice (washed,soaked for 15minutes and drained); 6 cups Water; 1/4 cup Carrot (diced into small cubes); 1 no Potato (diced into small cubes, medium); Ginger (garlic paste - 1 tbsp); 6 nos Cloves (Grambu); 1/8th tsp Cardamom powder (Elakka); 3 tsp Salt; 1" piece Cinnamon (Karugapatta); 4 nos Green chillies; 2 nos Bay leaves (Vazhana/Karuga ela); 1 tsp Fennel seeds (Perinjeerakam); 1/4 cup Onion (julliened); 1 tsp Lime juice; 2 tbsp Oil; 1 tbsp Ghee

Methi Pulav

Methi pulav cooked in electric rice cooker

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Cuisine Andhra

Servings people

Ingredients

3 cups Fenugreek leaves (chopped) Methi/Uluva
3 cups Basmati Rice washed,soaked for 15minutes and drained
6 cups Water
1/4 cup Carrot diced into small cubes
1 no Potato diced into small cubes, medium
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
6 nos Cloves Grambu
1/8th tsp Cardamom powder Elakka
3 tsp Salt
1" piece Cinnamon Karugapatta
4 nos Green chillies
2 nos Bay leaves Vazhana/Karuga ela
1 tsp Fennel seeds Perinjeerakam
1/4 cup Onion julliened
1 tsp Lime juice
2 tbsp Oil
1 tbsp Ghee

Instructions

In a electric rice cooker, take oil and ghee.
Close the lid and set ur rice cooker to cook and wait until the oil-ghee gets heated and the cooker setting comes to warm.
Put the lid aside and add cloves, bay leaves, cardamom powder, cinnamon stick, fennel seeds and saute for 1 minute until nice aroma comes.
Add onions and green chillies and change the cooker setting to cook.
Close it with lid and wait until the cooker setting turns to warm.
Add chopped methi leaves, ginger-garlic paste and stir well.
Turn the setting to cook, close the lid and cook until it turns to warm.
:- Once the methi is cooked, u will notice a nice aroma out of the combination of methi, spices and gingergarlic paste.
Add vegetables and stir well.
Change the setting to cook, close the lid and cook until cooker turns to warm.
Add rice and salt and stir well.
Add water and lime juice.
Close the lid, change the setting to cook and cook until done.
:- U can cook this in a heavy bottomed pan or pressure cooker. But i prefer electric rice cooker to cut down on oil and ghee.

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Response (1)

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Radha Karthic March 25, 2007

Hi
I was very much impressed with your recipe. This one is so easy to make and it turned out very well. Me and my husband enjoyed eating this pulav. Cheers for such a Good and Easy recipe.