Friday 13 May 2016

‪‎MUMBAItawapulao‬

Boiled rice: 3 cups,
• Chopped Onions: 1 cup,
• Chopped Tomatoes: 2 cup,
• Chopped carrots: ½ cup,
• Chopped Potatoes: ½ cup,
• Green Peas: ½ cup
• Chopped Green beans (French beans): ½ cup,
• Chopped Bell pepper (capsicum): ½ cup
• Green chilly: 2,
• Ginger garlic paste: 1 tbsp,
• Lemon juice: 2 tsp,
• Cumin seeds; 1 tsp,
• Turmeric powder: ½ tsp,
• Red chilly powder: ½ tsp,
• Pavbhaji masala: 3-4 tbsp,
• Fine chopped coriander leaves: 3 tbsp,
• Butter 4 tbsp,
• Oil: 2 tsp,
• Salt
Instructions
1. Heat pan/ tawa/ wok at medium heat. Add little oil. Now add 3 tbs. of buuter.
2. As the butter is melting add cumin seeds and stir them.
3. Now add fine chopped onions and saute till onion turns little pink.
4. Now add chopped beans and chopped capsicum/ bell pepper.
5. Now add little salt and cook everything for few minutes.
6. When veggies are almost half cooked add giger garlic paste ( optional) stir and cook till onion turns brown and oil separates from the veggies.
7. When you see veggies are losing oil add turmeric powder and mix it well.
8. Now add fine chopped tomatoes mix it and cover and cook till tomatoes become soft.
9. When tomatoes become nice soft add green chilly, red chilly powder and pavbhaji masala.
10. Mix everything and add boiled veggies. Saute and cover them and let them cook for 5-6 minutes. Add 2 tbsp tomato sauce to this anc mix .
11. Now add boiled rice, coriander leaves, lemon juice, some more butter and mix it gently with the help of two spatula.
12. Tawa pulao is ready to serve.
Notes
1. If you are using salted butter do not add too much of salt.
2. Rice should not be overcooked as we are going to cook them with veggies and masala.
3. For making tawa pulao veggies should not be mushy like pav bhaji they should only be for tender.
4. You can use more or less chilly, lemon juice according to your taste.
5. Can cook veggies in microwave too and add to pulao. Saves time.
6. All this can be done directly in cooker too. After adding all veggies and masalas add soaked drained rice add req water and pressure cook upto 2 whistles.

1 comment:

  1. Hello Geetha Sridhar,
    This post is very nice. MUMBAItawapulao‬ is a great recipe. It is very delicious to look at. Thank you for sharing the ingredients and recipe. Hope your next recipe will published soon.

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