Mint Rice Or Pulao

Mint rice or pulao.

A very flavourful and spicy one pot meal. Goes well with any veg or non veg curry. Or serve it with simple onion cucumber raita or fruit raita. You can make this delicious rice for tiffin too.

Whenever we have to cook lip-smacking dish in a short notice one pot meal is the best option.

This post is going to be a part of 95th #Foodiemonday bloghop one pot meal theme.

You don’t have to spend lots of time in the kitchen. Just grind the spices and and make it in a pressure cooker for one whistle. You can add whole spices as tempering. But I have ground them to make the rice more flavourful.

Recipe 

Rice – 1 cup

Onion – 2 sliced

Garlic – 4 – 5 cloves

Ginger – 1 Inch piece chopped

Mint leaves – 1 cup

Coriander leaves – 1/2 cup chopped

Green chilli – 2 – 3 chopped

Green cardamom – 3 – 4

Cloves – 3

Cinnamon – 1 inch stick

Mace or javitri – 1 string

Star anise – 1/2

Tomato – 1 chopped

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon

Black pepper powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Oil or ghee/clarified butter – 2 – 3 tablespoon

Lemon juice – 1 tablespoon

cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon

Sugar – 1/2 teaspoon, optional

Water – 1& 1/2 cup

Fried cashew nuts – 2 tablespoon

Method 

Wash the rice well. Drain and keep aside.

Grind mint leaves, coriander leaves or cilantro, ginger, garlic, green chilli, cardamom, cinnamon, mace or javitri, star anise and tomato. Make a smooth paste.

Heat oil or ghee in a pressure cooker. Add cumin seeds and let them splutter.

You can can use cardamom, cinnamon, cloves  mace and star anise as tempering. I have ground them to make the rice more flavourful. If you want to add as tempering crush the whole spices and add with cumin seeds in hot oil or ghee. Grind only mint leaves, cilantro, green chilli  ginger, garlic and tomato.

When cumin seeds starts to crackle add sliced onion. Fry until onions becomes translucent.

Add the ground mixture, salt, black pepper powder, sugar, coriander powder and cumin powder. Adjust chillies according to your taste.

Saute until oil leaves the side.

Add the rice. Mix gently. Saute for few seconds.

Add 1 and 1/2 cup water and lemon juice.

Mix well.

Close the lid. Remove from heat after one whistle.

Don’t open the pressure cooker immediately. Let the pressure settle down on its own.
Fluff the rice gently.

Garnish with fried cashew nuts.

Serve hot with any veg or non veg curry. Or onion cucumber or fruit raita.

Mushroom Dopeaja

Mushroom dopeaja. Or a thick curry of mushrooms with double onions. A lightly flavourful, delicious and easy to cook mushroom recipe goes well with pulao, paratha, roti or Indian flat bread.

Low calorie, iron and vitamins rich mushrooms are low in carbohydrates and high in fiber. And mushrooms have no fat and no cholesterol. Its helps in weight loss increases the strength of immunity system. Some other health benefits of mushrooms include relief from cancer, diabetes and high cholesterol.

Mushrooms are rich in protein too. Best for vegetarian people who don’t take meat products. Because you need to take protein to maintain healthy cells in your skin, muscle and organs.

So include this nutritious mushrooms to your diet.

Recipe

Mushroom – 200 gram

Onion – 1 medium chopped

Garlic – 3 – 4

Ginger – 1/2 inch piece

Green chilli – 2 – 3 or to taste

Tomato – 2 large

Green cardamom – 1

Onion – 1 large

Black pepper powder – 1 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Coriander powder – 1 teaspoon

Turmeric powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Garam masala powder – 1/4 teaspoon, optional

Kashmiri red chilli powder – 1 tablespoon

Oil – 2 tablespoon

Salt to taste

Cream – 1 tablespoon

Water as require

Coriander leaves to garnish

Method

If you have large size mushrooms chop in 4 pieces lengthwise and if small make 2 pieces.

Wash and soak in hot water with 1/2 teaspoon salt for few minutes.

Cube 1 large onion and separate the layers.

Make a paste of 1 medium onion, garlic and ginger.

Grind the tomatoes, green chilli and cardamom.

Heat oil in a pan. Add the onion, ginger and garlic paste. Saute till the oil leaves the sides.

Add the ground tomato paste, green chilli and cardamom. Add green chilli according to your spice tolerance.

Add all the dry spices. Saute till oil leaves the sides.

Remove from flame and add the well beaten cream. Mix well and cook again for few seconds stirring constantly.

Add mushrooms, cubed onion and salt. Mix well. Saute for 1 – 2 minutes.

Add water as require to make thick gravy. Let it boil. Cover and cook on low flame for 10 minutes.

Remove the cover. If you feel its runny cook for some more time on high flame or you can add little more water if require.

Taste and adjust the seasoning. You can add 1 tablespoon cream at this stage. I didn’t.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with pulao, fried rice, paratha, puri, roti or Indian flat bread.