Channa Pulao - a flavorful pulao made with white chickpeas. An easy, healthy, one-pot meal - perfect for those lazy afternoons when you don't feel like cooking an elaborate meal. Goes very well with any raita, especially onion raita.
Ingredients:
- Basmati rice - 1 cup
- White chickpeas/kabuli channa - 1/2 cup
- Onion - 1 medium size, chopped lengthwise
- Green chilies - 3, slit lengthwise
- Tomato - 1, finely chopped
- Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tsp
- Chana masala powder - 1 tsp
- Salt - As required
To Temper:
- Oil - 2 tbsp
- Bay leaf - 1
- Cloves - 2
- Cardamom - 2
- Cinnamon - 1 small piece
How To Prepare Channa Pulao:
- Wash and soak channa overnight. Pressure cook it with 2 cups of water till 3 whistles. Strain the water and keep channa aside.
- Wash and soak the basmati rice for about 30 minutes.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add the items under "to temper".
- Add onion and green chilies to it and fry till the onions turn transparent.
- Then add the ginger-garlic paste to it and fry till the raw smell goes off. Take care not to burn it.
- Now add the tomatoes to it and fry till they turn mushy.
- Add channa masala powder and mix well.
- Now add the soaked rice, the boiled channa and salt and mix well.
- Add 1-1/2 cups of water to it and close the lid. Wait for one whistle and switch off.
- Let the cooker cool down completely before you open it. Remove the rice into a wide basin and mix well, but gently.
- Yummm Channa pulao is now ready. Serve with any raita of your choice or chips.
2 comments:
Delicious healthy dish
so colorful....
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