Mint Pilaf Rice or Mint Pulav
published by Intuitive on Dec 20, 2009
Mint Pilaf rice or Pudina Pulav as it is popularly called in Hindi is a yummy dish, which will impress your taste buds and do good to your health as well.
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Serves 2 or 3
200gms (1 cup) of Basmati Rice
1bunch of mint leaves
1 green chilli split (optional)
1 tsp garlic paste
1/2 tsp ginger paste
1 medium sized onion
4 cloves
2 cardamoms
1 small cinamon stick
1/2 tsp of corriander powder
1/2 tsp of cummin powder
2 tbps of oil
Method:
1. Slice Onions.
2. On a medium flame, heat 2 tbps of oil and
add cloves, cardamom, cinamon and cummin seeds and wait till cummin splutters
3. Add onions and saute till brown, add cut mint leaves and saute for a few seconds
4. Add washed plain basmati rice to this
5. Add double the quantity of water to the rice – that is 2 cups of water for 1 cup of rice.
6. Add corriander powder and cummin powder
7. Add salt to taste
As a optional ingredient add half a lemon’s juice at the end and allow the mixture to cook.
The aroma of this rice is very appetizing and the ingredients are all very healthy. One can even use olive oil in low heat for this recipe.
# 1 by AlmaG
December 20th, 2009 at 10:35 pm #
Something like java rice… must try it
# 2 by ladydryle
December 26th, 2009 at 10:05 am #
i never eaten this kind of food…it looks delicious, I’ll have a try on this…:)
# 3 by metro7
January 5th, 2010 at 4:53 am #
Pass the plate pls ha ha it sounds gr8 i am crazy about all kinds of rice preparations.thxs for the share.i even like the pic looks yummy i would prefer it with curds raita..
# 4 by lillyrose
January 6th, 2010 at 4:03 am #
this sounds wonderful! I real need some exciting recipes for rice!
# 5 by CA Johnson
January 7th, 2010 at 8:00 pm #
I have never had this before, but it sounds good.
# 6 by sasi rao
January 19th, 2010 at 5:19 am #
yummy dish! mouth watering. I prefer to eat with vegetable kurma
# 7 by venkat
January 19th, 2010 at 11:24 pm #
wow! its a tasty. But with dis if i have a coke. its veryyyyy delocious.
# 8 by dineshreddy
January 20th, 2010 at 2:32 am #
hmm…sounds mouth watering..
# 9 by dineshreddy
January 20th, 2010 at 2:40 am #
thx for the recepies….wine wud b great wid this..
# 10 by Ayyappa
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:04 am #
Pudina pulav reminds me of my mom’s gourmet cooking…Thanks for taking me back there
# 11 by Intuitive
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:20 am #
Thanks friends for all your comments. I truly appreciate it.