Lunch/Dinner- Rice - Oats Pulav

Oats Pulav

Ingredients Quantity Oats 1 Cup Basmati Rice 1/2 Cup Garam Masala Powder 1 Tbsp Pulav Leaves 2 Green Chilli 2 Carrot 1/4 Cup Green Peas 1/4 Cup Beans 1/4 Cup Mint Leaves Few Salt To Taste Coriander Leaves Few Oil 2 Tbsp

Method :

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1. Wash all the vegetables, peel the skin and cut them into pieces.Wash the rice and soak it for 30 minutes. Roast the oats for 5 mins or till they turn light brown color.
2. Heat the oil in a bowl add all vegetables and garam masala. Cook this for 5 mons or till the vegetables becomes soft.
3. Add 2 cups of water to it and then cover with lid until it gets boiled. Add soaked rice and mix it well by adding salt.
4. When the rice is half boiled add oats and cook for 5 more mins or till the oats gets cooked.
5. Garnish with curry leaves.

Tips :

1. If the rice you are using is old, you will have to add a little more water than the prescribed ratio of 2:1.
2. Add a tsp of lemon juice to rice while boiling, to make it white and fluffy. It will also help to bring out the rice flavorful.
3. When cooking rice for biryani / pulao, wash and soak the rice for twenty minutes. Then drain the rice and leave to dry (you can spread the rice in a plate or on a kitchen towel) for about thirty minutes. This will help to remove the excess starch from the rice, and every grain will be separate.
4. Do not stir the rice when cooking, as the rice grains will get crushed releasing starch into the water making the rice sticky.