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Riot-of- colour Pulao with Yogurt Curry

Thanks for all those who participated in the first event at Saffron Trail. The Weekend Breakfast Blogging table was filled with breakfast foods from around the world. Check out the round up with the guidelines to WBB#2 here. Pulao is so common-place and biryani is so much effort. I like a pulao that
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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Basics
  • 1 cup rice Basmati heaped long grained fragrant like
Aromatics
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • 4 - 5 cloves
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 - 3 star anise
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • black pepper corns Few
  • 1 tsp ginger finely chopped fresh
  • 1 tsp chopped garlic finely
Vegetables / Fruits:
  • 1 beet small finely milled (You can pretty much add any vegetables that you have at home)
  • 1 carrot large - cut into sticks
  • handful peas frozen
  • 1 onion large - sliced
  • 1 potato large - cut into sticks
  • handful raisins *
  • 5 - 6 apricots dried - sliced (Use any dried fruits you have)
Others
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder
  • 1 tsp curry powder coriander cumin my homemade / use any - based powder (will share my recipe soon)
  • 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
  • to taste Salt
For Curry (Also called Kadi)
  • 1 1/2 cups yogurt sour
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 1 gram flour (T) heaped
  • 1 green chilli finely chopped
  • pinch turmeric powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Method
 

  1. Recipe for Pulao:
  2. Wash rice in plenty of water. Soak it in hot water for 30 minutes.
  3. In a large wok, heat oil. Put in all the aromatics except ginger-garlic. Once cumin seeds start popping, add the ginger and garlic. Saute for a few seconds.
  4. Add all the chopped vegetables, dried fruits, chilli powder, curry powder, garam masala, turmeric powder, salt. Saute for 4-5 minutes on a medium flame until all the ingredients come together nicely and the vegetables are half cooked.
  5. Add the drained rice to this. Saute for 2 minutes. Add one cup water to the wok, cover with a lid which has a steam outlet, or leave some space between wok and lid. Keep the flame on SIM, and do not keep stirring the rice. After 7-8 minutes, check if rice is cooked. If not sprinkle some more water and cook till rice is done.
  6. Check for salt and serve piping hot with yogurt based curry.
  7. Pulao served with Kadi
  8. Recipe for Curry(Also called Kadi):
  9. Put all the above ingredients in a saucepan. Whisk the mixture well, so that the flour doesn't stay in lumps.
  10. Keep the pan on a medium flame, and keep stirring the curry continuously or else the yogurt will separate out.
  11. Let the curry come to a boil, take it off the flame.
  12. In a small kadai / ladle, heat a tsp of oil. Add some curry leaves, 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, 3-4 cloves and 1/2 tsp cumin seeds.
  13. As they splutter, put the tempered oil into the curry. Stir well and garnish with coriander. Keep a lid on the pan until you serve it.

Notes

Note:
*I used Organic Greek Currants bought from the Spice Shop in London on my recent trip
Check out:
~Are you getting ready for the Jihva for Flour-event hosted by Santhi's Kitchen? Details here.
~Meeta's innovative BPW event here.
~Barbara's It's too darned hot round up Part 1 over here.
This is my entry for Cate's ARF Tuesdays.