February 22nd, 2021

Arabian Meatless Pulao

Ingredients

• Basmati Rice four Cups, washed and soak in water for 10 minutes before cooking
• 10 cups water to boil the rice
• 2 Large Onions thinly sliced
• 1/4th cup Canola Oil
• I TBS Cumin seeds
• 1Tsp Corriander Seeds
• 7 Whole chilli Peppers rounds
• Salt
• 1 Cinnamon Stick break in little pieces
• 1 Big Cardimon
• 4 Small green Cardimon
• 10 Black Pepper Corns
• 5 Clovers
• 2 dry Bay leaves
• Yellow Food Coloring 7 drops

How to make it

1. Wash and soak rice in water for 10 minutes before cooking.
   preferably use Basmati Rice

Make the pulao mix ready.

1. Heat Oil in a shallow cooking pot
2. Add onions and cook on medium heat until they turn light brown but not dark brown
   
3. . Add all the dry ingredients and mix well. Turn the stove off. Make sure it does not burn. 
4. ​Boil 10 cups of water Add 2-3 TSP of salt.
   
5. Add rice to the boiling water. Let it boil approximately 7 minutes or until rice breaks but does not breaks on touching. Thats the critical part rice should not be over cooked.
6. Drain Rice and set aside
7. Turn the stove back on low heat and place the pan with pulao ingredients on it
8. Slowly spread rice over the pulao mix
9. drop food coloring.drops over the rice. Do not mix anything yet. Cover the rice with double sheet of paper towel  and
   
10. Cover the pan with air tight lid.
    
11. Keep the stove on on very low heat for additional 7 minutes. (Punjabi way keep on dum:)
12. Just before serving, Remove the lid, Discard paper towel.
    
13. Slowly bring the bottom pulao mix up. Repeat couple of time until you see everything looks like the shown video clip

          *key is to be very gentle. Rice should not break.
          *Serve with Butter Chicken or Beef Steaks