Easy Kashmiri Pulav

Ingredients:

Basmathi Rice - 3 cups

Vegetables - 1/2 cup ( Beans, carrot, Peas, Capsicum)

Cardamon - 5

Cloves - 5

Saffron - few strands

Butter - 1 tbsp.

Salt - to taste

For Easy Pulav:

• Wash and soak Basmathi Rice in warm water for 10 mins.
• Heat oil in pan, Add Butter, Shallow fry Cashew nuts and dry grapes. Once golden brown, remove from pan and keep aside.
• In the same pan, add Cardamon and Cloves.
• Then add the vegetables and stir till half done.
• Turn off Flame..

In an Electric Rice cooker/ Pressure Cooker, Add the rice, 6 cups water, the vegetables, cashew nuts, dry grapes , saffron and salt to taste, and let it cook.

Enjoy Delicious Pulav with any spicy curry.

Tips:

1. How to know whats the exact amount of salt to be added: In the rice cooker, while adding salt, taste the water. The water should be slightly salty. Only then when the rice is cooked, the salt would be perfect. If the water tastes perfect, then the rice would have less salt once cooked.At that point, we wont be able to add salt. So add the right amount of salt!!! This is applicable for any mixed rice recipe.
2. Adding butter, keeps the rice White in color. If you add oil or ghee, the rice would be slightly yellow. So try to use butter to have it white.
3. If you dont have a electric rice cooker, you can also try this out directly in pressure cooker.