White channa pulav

I always love to prepare variety rice for lunch box... So almost I tried all possible combos for pulav.. This is one of my favourite combo for lunch box....very healthier too... Even kids will like it more....I used white channa since my daughter loved it very much.... can try the same recipe with black Chenna to which is more healthier version....so try and give me your feed back friends.

 

Ingredients

Raw rice - 1 cup ( you can use basmathi rice for better results)

White Channa or chick peas- 1 cup

Onion - 2 - chopped lengthwise

Green Chilli - 2 slit

coconut milk - 1 cup

Water - 1 cup

Lemon juice - 1 tbs

Red Chilli powder -1 tsp

Garam masala powder -1 tsp

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp

Cloves -2

Cinnamon - 2 inch piece

Cardamom -1

Bay leaf - 1/2 of small leaf

Salt as needed 

Oil as needed 

Method

Soak white channa overnight, Pressure cook it by adding very little salt. 

Soak rice for 1/2 hour in water. Drain water . Then add a tsp of ghee in pan, add 1 clove and 1 inch cinnamon and fry the rice for a few minutes and keep aside. This is done to give rich flavour to rice.

Then in a pan add ghee, add seasoning items like, fennel seeds, cloves,cinnamon stick,bay leaf, sauté for few minutes. Then add onion, fry it well till it turns pink. Then add green chillies, fry for one more minute. Then add ginger garlic paste, sauté well till nice aroma comes. Now add cooked channa, red chilli powder, garam masala powder and salt needed. Saute for few minutes. Then add coconut milk, when it begin to boil, add rice, salt, lemon juice, transfer the contents to pressure pan and pressure cook it for one whistle and keep in sim for five minutes and switch of the flame. When steam reduced, open the pan, transfer the pulav into a broad vessel and disperse it with fork... Then decorate with roasted onions and serve hot with any grave or raita.. Today I prepared mixed vegetable raita.