Peas Pulao | Restuarant Style !!!

Peas Pulao is one of my favourite food and I cook on weekends. You can say its my Weekend Specials too. Its simple, delicious and flavourful. My family loves this a lot. Do have a look at other pulao varieties here.

Ingredients
Basmati Rice - 2.5 cups
Green Peas - 1.5cups(Fresh or Frozen) I used frozen, thawed.
Spices -Bay leaf/Cinnamon/Cloves/Cardamom - 1 no each
Green chilli - 1 no
Ghee - 1 tspn
Onion - 1 no(Finely chopped)
Oil - 4 tspns
Milk - 1 cup
Water - 4 cups
Jeera - 1 tspn
Ginger and Garlic - 2 to 3 tspns(Finely chopped)
Salt

 Preparation Method
Wash, rinse and soak basmati rice in water.
Heat pressure cooker, add ghee, oil and spices. saute for 2 mins. Add Jeera and saute. Add greenchilli, onion, ginger and garlic. Saute till slight brown.
Add milk and stir. Add water and allow it to boil.
Now add rice, salt and mix well.
Finally add thawed green peas.
Close the lid and cook (dum) for 10mins or pressure cook for 2-3 whistles.

Restuarant Style Peas Pulao is ready to serve.

You can serve this with slightly spiced gravy or dal.

Notes - Can use normal rice also, but its very good in Basmati Rice. I recommend preparing it with Basmati Rice.

Amani Kozhakattai Payasam Step by Step Recipe | Vinayagar Chathurthi Recipe!!!

WISH ALL MY READERS A VERY HAPPY VINAYAGAR|GANESH CHATHURTHI. GANAPATHI BAPPA MOURYA!!!!


Amani Kozhakattai Payasam is prepared with rice flour dough and cooked in jaggery and milk.


Preparations are started for Tomorrow's Vinayagar Chathurthi at my home. Some of the dishes are Ullandhu Kozhakattai, Poornam Kozhakattai,Karjikai/Somasi, Ellu Urudai, Paruppu Payasam, Sundal and more. For more recipes on Vinayagar Chathurthi you can browse Indusladies Forum for more recipes here.


Steps

Dough

Take little dough.

Spread it lengthwise.

Take little portion and make small balls.

Place it in the idli plate and steam.

Recipe
Ingredients
Kozhakattai Maavu - 1 cup(Approximate 20 tiny balls) to make the dough click here.
Vellam/Jaggery - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Fresh Grated coconut - 1 cup
Rice - 1/2 tspn
Elakka/Elachi - 1no


Preparation Method
Steam the kozhakattai urundai, with other kozhakattai and keep ready.
Heat a vessel, add vellam/jaggery with little water, let it dissolve. Filter it if any mud particles are there.
Grind coconut, rice and ellaka in mixer or blender with little water to fine paste.
Again boil the vellam/jaggery till raw smell goes, then add milk, kozhakattai urundai. Mix well an boil in simmer flame.

Ammni Kozhakattai Payasam is ready to offer for Lord Vinayagar and Enjoy!!!

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Lemon Pickle

This has been lying in my drafts since long time....Pickles time....My in laws like pickles a lot, so this Lemon Pickle is for them. Even though I don't eat pickles, I have stock for my family.

Ingredients
Lemon - 20 nos(Nice yellow in colour)
Red Chilli Powder - 2 tablespoons(As per your taste)
Oil - 1/2 cup (any cooking oil I use Gingely Oil/Nalla Yennai or Olive Oil)
Mustard - 1/2 tspn
Hing - 1/4 tspn
Venthayam podi/Fenugreek seeds powder - 1/2 tspn
Salt as required


Preparation Method
Wash, wipe and cut lemon into small squares. In a glass bowl or porcelein bowl, add lemon, salt and red chilli powder. Mix and leave it for 1 to 2 hours.
Then season it with oil, mustard wait till it splutters. Off the stove add Hing(Asafotida) and venthaya podi.
Mix well and leave it for a day. Keep mixing in intervals with a wooden or plastic spoon.

Yummy Lemon Pickle is ready. A perfect for curd rice/Kootu rice.

Notes: - For longer shelf life store in refridgerator. - If you are using steal spoon, do not leave it in the box as it will rust.