Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, prawn pulao. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Prawn Pulao is a lightly spiced, aromatic preparation of rice and fresh prawns This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe. The basic pulao is a one pot dish in which the spices are tempered first and then the veggies & rice are cooked together. Prawns pulao is a delicate, flavorful prawn and rice dish fit for a feast. Simple Prawn Pulao Pulao is basically the Indian version of pilaf, pilau, or pulav.
Prawn pulao is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Prawn pulao is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have prawn pulao using 29 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Prawn pulao:
- Take 3 glasses rice
- Get 3/4 kg Prawns (peeled, cleaned, deveined)
- Prepare 4 1/2 glasses water
- Prepare 1 tsp ghee
- Take 1 tsp oil
- Take as required Cashews
- Make ready for Spices
- Make ready 2-3 bay leaves
- Get 1 tbsp Black cumin seeds
- Take 2-4 cardamoms
- Prepare 1 inch cinnamon bark
- Take 3-4 cloves
- Prepare 1 mace
- Get 1 star anise
- Prepare 4-5 pepper corns
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 1/3 tbsp coriander powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp garam masala (optional)
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp dried Fenugreek/ kasuri methi (optional)
- Prepare As needed - rock salt
- Prepare For Vegetables-
- Prepare 2 onions
- Take 2-3 green chillies
- Make ready 1 inch ginger
- Prepare 5-6 garlic cloves
- Prepare As needed - coriander leaves
- Make ready As needed - mint leaves
Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the prawns lightly on both sides on a medium heat till golden. This is a simple pulao made from fresh prawns. But let me tell you the taste of this recipe cannot be described in words. It is a simpler version of prawns pulao.
Instructions to make Prawn pulao:
- Soak rice in water for half an hour
- Cut the vegetables. Make the ginger-garlic paste.
- Heat oil and ghee in a pan.
- Add spices. Cook for half a minute. Add onions and green chillies. Cook until the onions become translucent.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and pepper.
- Wait until the onions brown /caramelise. Add salt,turmeric, chilli powder. Mix thoroughly. Let it cook for 2 minutes.
- Add mint. Cook for a minute. Add coriander and cashew nuts. Cook until the cashews brown a little.
- Add the prawns. Mix carefully without breaking them. Cook for 1 minute (until they start to become slightly C-shaped)
- Add cumin powder, coriander powder, garam masala, dried Fenugreek. Mix well.
- Add water(1:1.5 ::rice:water). Put a lid on it until it starts to boil. Taste the water to check for salt and spice.
- Drain the rice thoroughly.
- Once the water boils, add the rice. Mix carefully.
- Cook it in a pressure cooker for 15 minutes on low flame.
- Mix and serve. Garnish with lemon and onions.
But let me tell you the taste of this recipe cannot be described in words. It is a simpler version of prawns pulao. Light spices and cashews gives this pulao an amazing flavor and taste. T he inspiration of this Prawn Pulao came from Mishmash's CheMmeen Biryani. I call it "CheenMeen" which sounds so lyrical that it is hard to get it out of my head.
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