Tag Archives: Variety Rice

Mint Pulav

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Mint leaves 1 cup
Green chillies 3 to 5
Onion 1 thinly sliced
Ginger garlic paste 1 spn
Cinnamon 1 inch
Cloves 2
Cardamom 2
Bay leaves 1
Cumin seeds 1 spn
Basmati rice 1.5 cup
Coconut milk 1/2 cup
Ghee or oil 2 spn
Salt as required

Grind mint leaves with green chilies.. make it as fine paste.. keep aside..

Heat oil in a pressure cooker. I cooked in instant pot..
Add cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and cumin seeds..
Fry for a minute..
Add onions.. fry until translucent..
Add ginger garlic paste fry well..
Add the mint paste.. fry for 3 minutes..
Add salt and 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup coconut milk..
Add soaked rice now..
Adjust salt..
Cover and cook 2 whistle in medium flame..
If instant pot cook in rice mode low pressure for 8 minutes..
Wait until the pressure is down..
Mix gently..
Serve hot…
I added 2 carrots..we can add any veggies too..

Green Gram Dhal Rice Kongu Special

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Whole green gram dhal 1 cup
Rice 1 cup
Onion 1 thinly sliced
Tomato 1 thinly sliced
Green chillies 3 to 4
Ginger garlic paste 1 spn
Corriander leaves few
Turmeric 1/4 spn
Sambar powder 1 spn
Curry leaves few
Cumin seeds 1 spn
Salt as required

Wash Soak green dhal and rice together ..
Heat a pressure cooker..
Add oil ..
Add mustard seeds and cumin seeds..
Once it crackling add the curry leaves and green chilies..
Add onion..fry until translucent..
Add ginger garlic paste.. fry until raw smell leaves..
Add tomatoes now fry until mushy..
Add salt and turmeric and sambar powder too..
Add 3 and half cup water..
Once it started boiling add the soaked dhal and rice..
Check salt..
Add chopped corriander leaves..
Mix well..
Cover and cook for 2 whistle in medium flame..
Open the cooking once pressure is down..
Mix gently..
Serve hot with raita or plain curd ..
Along with and vegetable fry..

Carrot pulav

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Rice 1 cup
I used basmati
Butter 2 spn
Carrot 4 big
Onion 1
Jeera 1 spn
Green chilli 2
Ginger 1 inch finely chopped (optional)
Salt as per need

Cook rice with two cups of water and a spn of ghee with little salt
Make it cool

Heat a pan
Add ghee
Add jeera followed by onion and ginger
Fry golden brown
Add carrot cook it without water
Chk salt
Now add the cooked rice…
Fry gently
Serve hot😋😋
Can garnish with fried cashews…

Spinach pulav

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Rice 1 cup
Butter 2 spn
Spinach 1 bunch
Onion 1
Jeera 1 spn
Green chilli 2
Garlic 5 pods finely chopped
Salt as per need

Cook rice with two cups of water and a spn of ghee with little salt
Make it cool

Heat a pan
Add ghee
Add jeera followed by onion and garlic
Fry golden brown
Add spinach cook it without water
Chk salt
Now add the cooked rice…
Fry gently
Serve hot😋😋
Can garnish with fried cashews…

Corriander rice

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Basmati 1 cup
Corriander leaves 1 bunch
Green chillies 3
Ginger 1 inch( optional)
Butter or ghee 2 spn
Oil 1 spn
Cardamom 2
Cashew 10 or more
Bay leaves 1
Cinnamon 1 inch
Jeera 1 spn
Coconut milk 1 cup ( optional)
Salt as required

Grind corriander leaves , green chilles, ginger together
Make a smooth paste…
Heat a pan or cooker
Add ghee and oil
Put cardamom, bay leaves, cinnamon and jeera
Fry for a minute
Add cashew
Now add the paste
Fry in low flame for until raw smell leave
Now add rice
Then water 2 cups
If u r using coconut milk 1 cup then 1 cup water is enough
Put salt
Let it boil
Mix well and add 1 spn of butter before closing the lid
Make 1 whistle…

Serve hot with raita or some chips…

Capsicum masala rice

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Cook 1 cup rice and make it cool…
I used sona masuri rice
Basmati can give better taste..

Capsicum diced 1 cup
Use different colour capsicum for good look
Onion 1
Mustard 1 spn
Oil or ghee as per need

For masala
Corriander seeds 2 spn
Urad dhal 2 spn
Jeera 1 spn
Red chilli 3 or more as per spice level

Heat 1 spn oil in a pan
Add corriander seeds, urad dhal, jeera, red chill
Fry in low flame
And make it cool
Grind it as powder

Heat ghee
Add mustard
Add onion and salt
Fry well.. Add capsicum
Fry for a miniute
Add the masala powder
Fry until capsicum half cooked
Add rice mix gently…
Serve hot….

Tawa peas pulav

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Peas 1 cup
Basmati rice 1 cup
Cinnamon 1 inch
Cloves 3
Cardamom 2
Bay leaves 1
Mint corriander leaves 1/2 cup finely chopped
Salt
Onion 1
Green chilies 3
Ginger garlic paste 1 spn
Ghee 1 spn

Heat a non stick pan
Add oil
Add cinnamon, bay leaves,cloves, cardamom
Add onions fry until translucent
Add ginger garlic paste
Green chilies too
Fry well
Add peas and mint corriander leaves
Fry for few mins
Add rice
Add water for 1 cup rice two cups of tea water
Add salt
Cover and cook in medium flame
Mix one or two times while cooking
Add ghee when 70% done
Cook in low flame until water evaporates
Switch off the flame
Once done cover the pan and leave it for five mins…

Serve hot with raitha or any gravy…

Capsicum Peanut Masala Rice

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Rice 1 cup
Cook and make it cool completely

Capsicum 1 diced
Onion 1 finely chopped
Ghee 2 spoon (can add more for kids)
Mustard 1/4 spoon
Curry leaves few
Corriander seeds 2 spoon
Urad dhal 1 spoon
Peanut 2 spn
Red chillies 4 to 5
Jeera 1 spoon
Whole pepper 1/4 spoon
Salt as required

Roast corriander seeds, Urad dhal, peanut, red chillies, jeera, pepper with little oil..
Cool and grind it..
Masala ready

Heat a pan
Add ghee
Add mustard and curry leaves
Add onions fry until golden brown
Add the masala
Fry for 2 mins in medium flame
Add diced capsicum add salt
Fry for a minute
Add cooked rice
Fry until masala coated with rice

Serve hot 😋😋😋