veg pulav

PULAO | HOW TO MAKE VEG PULAO

Pulao recipe With step by step photos. veg pulao Is comfort food as well as satisfying. Pair this mildly flavored aromatic vegetable pulao with a raita, pickle and roasted papad and you don’t need anything else. Pulao is also called as pilaf and pulav.

Veg pulao is a one-pot dish made with rice and vegetables. Some spices and herbs are also added to give pulao more flavor and tas

I make veg pulao when I want to cook something quick and easy. This is my mom’s vegetable pulav recipe and one of our favorite rice recipes, the other being Veg biryani.

I have many veg pulao recipes On the blog like Peas pulao, Kashmiri pulao,Tawa pulao, Paneer pulao and so on. However most of the times I always end up making vegetable pulao this way.

I also tried some other variations of making vegetable pulav but it did not suit our taste buds. There is no addition of any pulao or biryani masala in this recipe. Just the whole garam masala spices are added.

What I like about making veg pulao is that it gets made quickly. If you have a food processor for chopping the veggies, then its more quick. Usually I like the texture of the rice to be a little soft in pulao than being Al dente or the way they are served in restaurants.

What you look in a pulao recipe is that the rice grains have to be cooked perfectly without sticking or becoming mushy. So a pulao should have separate non sticky rice grains after being cooked. I have compiled below some tips and suggestions to make a really good vegetable pulao with separate non-sticky grains of

TIPS TO MAKE PULAO

1. Type and quality of rice
Usually basmati rice is used to make it. The basmati rice has to be fragrant and long-grained to get good results. Aged basmati rice gives very excellent results in a pulao or biryani recipe. You can even use other types of long-grained rice and short-grained rice varieties like seeraga samba or sona masuri or ambe mohar. In some parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, seeraga samba rice is widely used to make pulao and biryani. Even parboiled basmati rice (sela basmati) can be used to make both pulao and biryani.