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Methi Pulav

Methi pulav cooked in electric rice cooker
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Andhra
Servings 4 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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