Let me tell you how to prepare the pulav within in 1 hour. The method I tell you, requires less oil and it gives very healthy mixed vegetable rice.

Ingredients

Rice – 1 Cup
Mixed vegetables – 1 cup
Garlic Ginger Paste – 1/2 tsp
Cardamom – 2 Nos
Clove – 4 Nos
Tej Patha (bay Leaves – 1 big leaf
Green Chillies – 2 Nos
Big Onion – 2 Nos
Sombu (sonuf) – 1 tsp
Ghee or cooking oil – 2 table spoons
Chili powder – 1/2 tsp

-Wash the rice and soak it for 15 minutes. You should not wash the rice after soaking. The rice will break .

-Drain the water thoroughly.

- In the mean time cut all the desired vegetables into small pieces (carrot, beans , cauliflower, onion, green peas etc)

- Dry fry all the given spices except bay leaves and make it into a coarse powder.

- Apply one table spoon of ghee in a kadai and fry the rice along with the bay leaf and at the end add the powdered masala and pour it into the vessel into which you are going to make the pulav.

- Again in another table spoon of ghee fry fry the ginger garlic paste and all the vegetables and add to the fried rice.

- Add 2 cups of water, 1/2 tsp chilliepowder and the required amount of salt (in general it requires 1 tsp of salt, but the quantity depends upon an individual’s taste).

- Pressure cook this mixture in high fire until 3 whistles come. Let the cooker simmer for about 10 minutes.

- Soon after the cooker gets released take out vessel and allow it to cool for about 10 minutes.

-You can garnish pulav with fried golden cashews, finely chopped coriander. Even small pieces of bread can be fried in oil till golden brown and can be used for garnishing.

-Serve with onion raitha as side dish

[Note: Onion raitha is nothing but finely chopped onion , coriander and green chillies added to fresh curd with salt. You can also add grated carrot and pomegranate seeds to make it more colourful.Ordinary rice or Basmathi rice can be used. basmathi rice gives more flavoured pulav.]