PUDINA PULAV

PUDINA PULAV

Ingredients

Rice 1 cup

Potatoes 2 diced

Peas ¼ cup

Mint leaves 1 bunch

Grated fresh coconut 3 tbsp

Green chillies 6-7

Ginger ½ inch

Turmeric powder ¼ tsp

Lemon ½

Salt to taste

Cloves 2-3 cardamoms 2

Bayleaf 1

Ghee for frying

METHOD

Wash and soak rice for half an hour. Pressure cook with two cups of water. Allow it to cool. pressure cook potatoes with skin and then peel cut into cubes. Cook peas separately. Cut onions into one inch long pieces. Fry mint leaves in little oil and then grind it along with coconut, green chillies,  ginger and turmeric powder.

Heat rest of ghee  in a broad kadai ,fry cloves cardamoms and bayleaf and onions. Add ground paste with potatoes and peas. Stir constantly in medium flame till raw smell goes. Add powdered salt and cooked rice to this mix well squeeze lemon juice, mix gently and remove from fire.