Pomegranate pulav

Good Morning Friends.... Yesterday hubby bought two kgs of pomegranate... brother too visited my home with two kgs of pomegranate.. 4 kgs of pomegranate in home... Normally it tastes so good when we eat raw... So I never try recipes out of it... Maximum I used to prepare juice or add in curd rice... But with this much in home, I developed desire to prepare pulav for lunch box recipe.... When thinking how to prepare, Kashmiri pulav recipe came to my mind, already I used to prepare it in home.... So I modified Kashmiri pulav to our taste, omitting other fruits and nuts just added pomegranate alone.... This is best recipe for parties in home, especially birthday parities for kids, since it is colourful used to attract kids very much and that too when served with any manchurian, kids will love it....

I used raw rice here... But if you use basmathi rice taste will be heaven.....soak rice in water for 1/2 hour...in pan, add butter, when it is heated, add, fennel seeds, when it splutters add cloves, cinnamon stick, bay leaves, sauté for one min, then add rice (1 cup), sauté well, to this add one cup of milk and one cup of water, salt and pressure cook it.... You can add bit saffron too, I don't have it's stock in home, so didn't used, soak saffron in milk and then add to rice while cooking...allow the cooking rice to cool like we do for fried rice..

In a pan add butter, when it is heated, add fennel seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves, bay leaves, sauté well, then add nicely chopped onion (1), green chilies (2), sauté till onion turns pink, then add ginger garlic paste, sauté well, now add fresh green peas ( since I don't have fresh, soaked dry green peas overnight, cooked and added, can add boiled carrot and beans or sweet corn), as already we have added salt to rice, add very little salt here, then add cardamon powder, cumin powder, sauté well for two minutes, then add pomegranate, pepper powder, roasted raisins and rice to this, mix everything well in low flame for one minute...switch off the flame... Serve hot with any spicy grave using tomatoes... Fr Kashmiri rice, follow same recipe, add more fruits like apple, jackfruit, grapes and nuts like cashwenuts, almonds etc...

Don't hesitate to try this with thinking how fruits goes with rice.... Really it taste so nice.. So pls try and give your comments...