Comfort Zone: Yummy peas pulao

Fresh peas are available at this time of the year and i love to cook with them.
I was thinking of making either peas pulao or peas parata.

I love rice dishes and simplicity of this recipe won over peas parata.
Though i made many varieties of pulao, i never tried peas pulao.




Ingredients:

2 cups Basmati rice
1 cup fresh peas (frozen peas will also do)
3 green chillies (adjust to your taste)
1 onion
curry leaves (optional)
Jeera (optional)
4 cloves
cinamon
bay leaf
1 tbsp clarified butter/Ghee/Butter
1 tbsp Vegetable oil
ginger-small peice
2 garlic pods
salt



You can experiment with lot of spices in this recipe. Go with your heart.

Soak basmati rice in water for an hour. Cut onions and chillies length wise. finely chop garlic and ginger.


Add ghee and vegetable oil to a thick bottom pan (i used pressure cooker).
once oil heats add all spices (bay leaf, cloves, small cinnamon stick, 1 tsp Jeera)
you will get great auroma once spices are added to oil.

Now add ginger, garlic, curry leaves, onion, chillies in the order.
Stir properly and cook until onions start to brown.




Now add peas and rice and cook for a min.




Add 3 and 1/2 cups of water and add salt. You can taste water to make sure you added right amount of salt.


Now you can either use pressure cooker or electric cooker to cook this rice mix.
You can also cook in a vessel, but you need to another add 1/2 cup water and be little careful.



I cooked on medium flame until 2 whistles on pressure cooker.

It was so tasty, just writing this recipe is making my mouth water.
My family was craving for more . My son was picking and eating all peas and i was fully satisfied.