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Orange Pulao

Pulao made with sweetlime juice & coconut milk
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine North Indian
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Basmathi rice soaked in water for half an hr
  • 1 cup Orange juice sweetlime variety) preferably without suga
  • 1 cup Coconut milk
  • 1 cup Peas
  • 2 nos Onion sliced
  • Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
  • 10 - Green chillies slit
  • Food color Red or orange
  • Coriander leaves As reqd
  • Salt As reqd
  • 2 cups Water
  • 3 tbsp Oil & ghee

Raw masalas:-

  • 2 - Cardamom Elakka
  • 2 - Cinnamon Karugapatta
  • 2 - Cloves Grambu
  • 2 - Bay leaves Karuga/Vazhana ela
  • For raitha: side dish
  • Cabbage(chopped)
  • Capsicum(chopped)
  • 1/3 tsp Pepper powder
  • 1/3 tsp Cumin powder Jeerakam
  • Sa lt As reqd
  • Curd As reqd

Instructions
 

  • Pour oil & ghee in a kadai or cooker.
  • Put all the raw masala items and fry them.
  • Add sliced onions, ginger-garlic paste and green chillies and saute for a while.
  • Add washed rice and give a gentle mix.
  • Add coconut milk (normal milk not thick nor thin), sweetlime juice and water according to the given measurement only.
  • Add the food color and salt.
  • Allow it to boil nicely.
  • Simmer the stove and keep upto 2 whistles.
  • Open the lid and wait until the steam gets off and then, give a mix.
  • For making raitha:- 1)Fry both cabbage and capsicum.
  • Remove it from stove and add pepper and cumin powders.
  • Add salt and curd.
  • Give a mix.
  • :- Serve pulao with raitha.
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