Easy and Quick way to prepare Green Peas Pulao using rice cooker

Green Peas Pulao can be prepared in various different ways depending upon how much time you have and available gadgets. If you have a rice cooker, preparing a tasty green peas pulao can be a matter of “piece of cake”. It just takes 2mins extra before you put the rice in the rice cooker for cooking. I normally use this technique when there’s a shortage of daal or other curry side dishes. So here’s the instructions for the Green Peas Pulao Recipe using rice cooker.


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Ingredients

• 1 Cup Basmati Rice
• Handful of Green Peas (either fresh or frozen)
• 4 whole black pepper (peppercorn)
• Few pieces of broken kaju (cashew nuts)
• 3-4 kismis (raisins)
• 1 inch cinnamon broken into small pieces
• 2-3 green cardamom broken into half
• 2-3 cloves
• A pinch of turmeric powder (to bring color, optional)
• 0.5 teaspoon of salt (or upto taste)
• 0.5 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of ghee

Preparation Time: 5 min
Cooking Time: 20 min
Serves: 2

How to prepare Green Peas Pulao easily and quickly using rice cooker

1. Wash the rice under flowing water and drain off the water and put the rice into the rice cooker. Add double quantity of water (slightly less if you want the rice grains to remain long and dry).

2. Add all the ingredients except ghee (turmeric, salt, sugar, cashew nuts, raisins, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, peppercorn) into the water and mix well.

3. Turn on the rice cooker. It usually takes 15-20mins to cook the rice.

4. As soon as the automatic button shifts to warm (i.e. cooking is complete), turn off the cooker and wait for 5mins.

5. Add ghee and stir well so that everything is mixed well.

Green Peas Pulao is now ready to serve hot with any other spicy side dishes in lunch or in dinner. This is the recipe that takes the least effort yet produces a delicious pulao.