Pav Bhaji Rice

Pav Bhaji Rice

Ingredients

Basmati Rice 2 cup
Vegetables finely chopped (beans, carrot, cauliflower) ½ cup
Capsicum (shimla) finely chopped ½ cup
Peas (matar), boiled ¼ cup
Onion (payaz) finely chopped 1 cup
Tomatoes (tamater) finely chopped ½ cup
Ginger-garlic (adrakh lahsan) paste 1 tea spoon
Green chillies (hari mirch) chopped 2 tea spoon
Pav bhaji masala 4 table spoon
Kashmiri chilli powder 1 tea spoon
Turmeric (haldi) powder ½ tea spoon
Salt (namak) as per taste
Butter (makhhan) 2-3 table spoon
Vegetable oil 3-4 table spoon
Lemon juice (nimboo ka ras) 1 table spoon
Green coriander (hara dhaniya) 4-5 table spoon

Instructions

  1. Wash and soak rice and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
  2. In a pot, boil enough water with salt and ½ tea spoon of oil. Add the rice to the hot water and cook it without the lid.
  3. When the rice becomes just cooked, remove the pot from fire and strain the rice. Let the rice cool properly.
  4. Finely chop french beans, cauliflower and carrot and keep aside.
  5. Finely chop the onions, green chillies, tomatoes and capsicum. Keep aside.
  6. Boil peas and keep them separately.
  7. In a pan, heat vegetable oil and add the chopped onions.
  8. Sauté the onions till they become translucent. Now add ginger-garlic paste.
  9. Sauté till the raw aroma of the ginger-garlic paste disappears add the green chillies and tomatoes.
  10. Cook tomatoes till they become soft and oil separates from the sides.
  11. Now add the chopped vegetables and cook them till they become soft.
  12. Add the chopped capsicum and sauté it for 2 to 3 minutes.
  13. Now add the salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and Pav bhaji masala and stir it well.
  14. Add boiled rice and mix it with a light hand. Now add lemon juice and chopped corianders.
  15. Serve hot “Pav Bhaji Rice” with onion rings.

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