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Navratan Pulao Recipe

Navratan pulao recipe

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Navratan Pulao stands for a one pot rice dish wherein rice are cooked or assembled together with other ingredients wherein 9 are the prime one.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course rice
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

1 cup = 200 ml

  • 7-8 tbsp oil
  • 2 medium potatoes (cut into dices)
  • 2 Carrots (cut into pieces)
  • 1/2 cup french beans (cut into pieces)
  • 1/2 cup cauliflower florets
  • 1/2 cup green peas
  • 200 gram paneer/Indian cottage cheese (cut into small cubes)
  • 15-16 almonds
  • 15-16 cashews (halved)
  • 18-20 raisins
  • 1 tbsp desi ghee
  • 1 tsp caraway seeds (or cumin seeds)
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 10-12 black pepper corns
  • 1 inch cinnamon stick
  • 1 star anise
  • 3 cloves
  • 3 green cardamoms
  • 4 cups cooked rice
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup saffron soaked milk
  • 1/4 cup onion barista/fried onion

Instructions
 

  • Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
  • Add potatoes dices and saute them.
  • Saute potatoes until they turn slightly brown.
  • Take them out of oil in some bowl.
  • Now add cauliflower florets in the oil.
  • Fry them too until turn brown.
  • Take them out in the same bowl carrying fried potatoes.
  • Then fry paneer cubes until brown.
  • Take out in the same bowl.
  • Add carrots, french beans, green peas and saute them.
  • Cover the pan with a lid and let them simmer for 10 minutes or until the veggies are slightly soft.
  • Take them too out of oil and shift to bowl.
  • Remove all the oil from the pan and add desi ghee to it.
  • Add almonds and cashews and roast them.
  • When almonds and cashews begin to turn brown, add raisins and roast till puff up.
  • Take these dry fruits out in the same bowl.
  • Now add caraway seeds, bay leaf, black pepper corns, cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves and green cardamoms. Saute till seeds crackle.
  • Add rice into the pan.
  • Then add fried vegetables, nuts, lemon juice and salt.
  • Add saffron soaked milk and give a good mix.
  • Top with onion barista and mix.
  • Put a lid on the pan and let rice simmer for 5-7 minutes on low heat.
  • Navratan pulao is ready. Enjoy.

Notes

  1. You can cook entire recipe in only oil or only desi ghee.
  2. Prefer to use cold rice, refrigerated are more better because if you will add freshly made hot rice into the recipe, they tend to turn mushy thereby spoiling the texture and finally the taste of pulao.
  3. Soak few strands of saffron into luke warm milk for 8-10 minutes to make saffron soaked milk.
  4. Traditionally Navratan pulao is made by deep frying the vegetables and nuts. But if you prefer the less oil version, then instead of deep frying, you can simply sautee them in few tablespoon of oil. Or alternatively, you can air fry the vegetables in just few drops of oil.
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