Vegetable pilaf with coconut milk
26 Feb 2016
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Total Time
25 minutes
Background
Vegetable pilaf is rice cooked with vegetables and spices. This recipe uses coconut milk to cook the rice and vegetables which give a different taste to the vegetable pilaf. It goes extremely well with gravies especially chicken gravy.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Basmati rice
- 1 cup Vegetables (Carrots, peas, corn, beans, potato,etc) chopped
- 1 cup Coconut milk
- 2½ cups Water
- A sprig of mint leaves (washed and chopped)
- 1" Ginger (Grated)
- 4 Cloves garlic (Grated)
- 1 Green chilli
- 2 Onions (Sliced)
- 1 Tbsp Oil
- Salt as required
- 3 cloves
- 2 Cardamoms
- 1" Cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan and cloves, cardamom and cinnamon.
- Add the onions and green chilli and fry until brown.
- Add mint leaves and fry for a minute.
- Add ginger and garlic and fry for half a minute.
- Add the vegetables and mix.
- Add the rice, coconut milk, salt and water and mix.
- Pressure cook the rice with vegetables according to your cooker specifications. Or cook on very low flame under lid until all the vegetables and rice are cooked.
- Serve hot.
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Categories
- Meal Type: - Courses - Dinner - Lunch - Main - MEALS - METHOD & SKILL - Pressure Cooker
- Cuisines: - ASIA - Indian
- Health and Diet: - Healthy - Vegetarian
- Skill Levels: - Easy
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