Bhutta Simla Mirch Rice

A treat when the corn is fresh and the capsicum firm and appetising. It has a unique blend of flavours ..

Ingredients:

Corn - 2 cups

Capsicum - 1 cup - sliced

Sweet Peas - 1 cup

Basmathi Rice - 2 cups - washed and soaked

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp

Cardamom - 2 pounded

Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp

Onion - 1 sliced

Green chillies - 3 or 4 or to taste

Vegetarian or Non- vegetarian stock cube - 1 (optional)

oil - 3 tbsp

Salt - to taste

Method:

Heat oil in a large, flat bottomed dish, drop in the cumin and cardamom and after a minute add the onions and ginger garlic paste.. Stir till raw smell subsides.

Add the capsicum, corn, green chillies, salt, and top it with stock or water measuring 4 cups.

Close lid and cook for another 5 mins. hen reduce flame and cook for another 5 mins.

Now, turn off flame and let it stand for 10 mins. Garnish with capsicum slices..

Enjoy hot with any curry and just like that !!!

Lemon Rice

Ingredients:

Steamed White Rice - 2 cups

Lemon Juice - extracted from 1 Lemon

Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tbsp

Hing - 1 pinch

Urud Dhal - 1 tbsp

Mustard Seeds - 1 tbsp

Curry Leaves - few

Red or Green chilli- 2 slit

Oil

Salt

For Lemon Rice:

• Add turmeric powder to lemon juice and keep aside.
• Heat oil in pan, add hing, mustard seeds, curry leaves, chillies, urud dhal - fry.
• Add the lemon juice and salt and let it cook for 1 min.Turn off flame and mix with Rice..
• Serve hot !!!

Ready in minutes... Enjoy with any spicy curry or potato chips..

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.