Pan Pulao

This Pan Pulao is a vegan recipe. I have not used ghee, butter, milk or yogurt and have used coconut oil and coconut milk instead. It is a lightly spiced and easy to cook recipe, which will become your family's favorite meal.

Now, quickly gather the below mentioned ingredients and begin...

Long Grain Basmati Rice - 1 cup (washed, and soaked in 2 cups of water)

Any variety of veggies - 1/2 cup in total ( I have used carrots, broccoli florets and beans)

Onion - 1 medium(thinly sliced)

Tomato - 1 medium (sliced)

Organic Coconut Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp

Cocnonut milk - 1/4 cup

Fennel Seeds - 1/2 tsp , for seasoning

Salt - 2 tsp or as per your taste (this is for the veegies and the ricew together)

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Biryani masala powder - 1 tbsp (click the link for the recipe)

White Paste -

1/2 of a small onion cut into large pieces, 1 inch ginger, 4 to 5 peeled garlic pods, 4 green chillies

Grind all the above ingredients into a fine paste. You can add 1 or 2 tbsp of water to grind the paste.

Ingredients at a glance:

To start with, wash and soak the rice in 2 cups of water for about 20 -30 minutes. Then start gathering the ingredients. This way, when you finish cutting the vegetables, and make the paste, your rice would be soaked.

Now, heat a pan, and add the coconut oil. Once the oil is hot, add the fennel seeds.

Then add the sliced onion and saute well for 2 minutes. Now, add the white paste and saute it until the raw smell of the ginger garlic and onion goes. It is time to add the veggies now. You need not saute them for a long time, just toss them a bit.

Now, add salt to taste, turmeric powder and the biryani masala powder and mix well.

Now, measure the remaining water in the soaked rice bowl. To cook the pulao, you will need 2 and 1/2 cups of water. Along with the soaked water, add the coconut milk. Pour the mix in the pan and let it come to a rolling boil.

Now add the soaked rice and give a gentle stir. Since the rice is already soaked, and the vegetables are fresh tender, the pulao will be done in about 10 minutes. See the pictures below, I have taken them with realtime, on the stove.

But after switching off the stove, please open the lid and let out the steam. Then keep it closed and leave it aside for 20 minutes to let the rice firm up. See the picture below.

Enjoy the pulao with onion or cucumber raita !

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