Matar Mint / Peas Pudhina Pulav

Ingredients:

  Matar/Green Peas - 1 cup 
  Mint Leaves - Handful (chopped)
  Onion - 2 ( thin slices)

  Tomato - 1 (small, Roughly chop)
  Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
  Green Chilly - 3-4 ( slit)
  Cloves - 3
  Cinnamon stick - 2 small pieces

  Green Elaichi - 1

  Bay Leaf  - 3

  Cumin powder - 1 tsp or Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

  Basmati Rice - 2 1/2 cups

  Coconut Milk - 2 1/2 cups

  Salt, Ghee, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Soak Basmati rice for 10 mins and drain the water.
• Heat ghee in a pan and add rice and saute and transfer to rice cooker.
• Then heat ghee and oil.
• Add garam spices.
• Then add onion and saute for a while.
• Add ginger garlic paste and chillies and saute till raw smell goes.
• Add the green peas and saute.
• Then add this to rice cooker and give it a mix.
• Add salt and coconut milk and mix well.
• Top it with fine chopped mint leaves.
• Serve this with any gravy.
• We had with paneer butter masala.

Variations:

• You can add veggies of your choice.
• Or You can add paneer and corn and do the same way.