Sweet Corn And Peas Pulao
Sweet corn and peas pulao is a healthy rice recipe made with sweet corn and peas. This sweet corn rice recipe is a one pot meal and can be made for lunch or dinner or can be packed in the lunch box too. The corn pulao recipe is very simple and easy to cook. This recipe is healthy and kid-friendly too.
Servings 4 People
Ingredients
For boiling the rice:
- 1 and 1/2 cups Basmati rice
- 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
- 1 bay leaf
- 5 black peppercorns
- 2 cloves
For pulao masala paste:
- 1 cup coriander leaves chopped
- 1 green chili slit
- 8 pepper corns
- 2 cloves/laung
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds/jeera
- 10 garlic pods pealed and chopped
- 1 inch cinnamon/dalchini
- 1 cardamom/elaichi
- For the pulao vegetable mix:
- 2 medium sized onions finely chopped
- 2 medium sized tomatoes finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 cup sweet corn kernel
- 1/2 cup green peas
- 4 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
- 2 tablespoon chili sauce
- 1 bay leaf
- To taste salt
- 4 tablespoon oil
Instructions
- Par boil the basmati rice either on gas stove or pressure cooker or rice cooker by adding one bay leaf, 5 black peppercorns and 2 cloves. Once the rice is par boiled, take a fork and run it through the rice. Sprinkle the rice with 1 teaspoon black pepper powder and keep aside.
- Take the sweet corn and green peas, boil them and keep aside. You can exclude this step if you are using canned sweet corn and green peas.
- In a mixer, add the ingredients mentioned in - For pulao masala paste (refer to ingredients section)- that is coriander leaves, chopped, green chili, black pepper corns, cloves/laung, cumin seeds/jeera, garlic pods, cinnamon/dalchini
- and cardamom/elaichi. Grind by adding 2 tablespoon water to a fine paste. Keep this aside.
- In a kadai, add 4 tablespoon oil and fry till onion turns pinkish. Then add bay leaf and chopped coriander (Refer to ingredients mentioned in For the pulao vegetable mix) and fry. Stir and add chopped tomatoes.
- Add ginger garlic paste and stir.
- Add the ground masala paste from the mixer and stir well.
- Next add boiled sweet corn and green peas and mix well.
- Add green chili sauce and stir.
- Add little salt to taste. Remember we will be adding salt again after mixing the rice, so add less salt.
- Next is add the boiled rice and mix well ensuring that the rice grains do not break. Adjust salt again.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.
Notes
If you are using frozen sweet corn kernels and green peas, then thaw and then boil them.
You can add other veggies like beans, carrots, mushrooms and soya chunks while making the pulao masala mix.
You can add other veggies like beans, carrots, mushrooms and soya chunks while making the pulao masala mix.