Pulav(chana)

by sumagandlur

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The irrestible pulav (chana) is a simple and delicious flavored rice recipe with boiled chana as an ingredient along with whole spices, long grain rice and coriander leaves.. This chana rice recipe is unique, tempting and quite healthy!

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Preparation Time: 20 min Cooking Time: 40 min Total Time: 601 hours 7

Ingredients

For the rice
1 1/8 cups long grained rice (basmati)
2 cardamoms (elaichi)
2 cloves (laung / lavang)
1 cinnamon (dalchini)
1 bayleaf (tejpatta)
1 cup milk
1 1/8 cups water
2 1/2 tsp salt
For the gravy
3/4 cup kabuli chana (white chick peas)
1 pinch soda bi-carb
1 tsp ginger (adrak) paste
1 tsp garlic (lehsun) paste
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
3/4 cup fresh curds (dahi)
3/4 cup chopped tomatoes
2 potatoes, chopped
3 chopped green chillies
3 tbsp ghee
salt to taste
For the baking
2 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania)
1 tbsp chopped mint leaves (phudina)
1 chopped green chilli
2 tbsp fried onions
1/3 cup milk with a dash of saffron (kesar) strands

Method

For the rice

Soak the rice for 30 minutes. drain.
Mix the water and milk together.
Add the caradamoms, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf, salt and rice and cook until almost done.

for the gravy

Soak the chick peas overnight. next day, boil with a little water and the soda bi-carb. drain.
Heat the ghee, add the ginger and garlic pastes and fry for a while.
Add the chilli powder and the turmeric (in a little water) and fry for 1 minute.
Add the curds, tomatoes, potatoes and green chillies and stir for a while.
Add the chick peas and salt.

how to proceed

To the cooked rice, add the coriander, mint, green chillies and fried onions.
Put one layer of rice in a big bowl and spread a layer of chick pea gravy on top
Make alternate layers of rice and gravy in this manner.
Finally, sprinkle the saffron milk on top, cover and bake in a hot oven at 200 degree c (400 degree f) for 20 minutes.
When baked, turn upside down in a serving dish and serve hot.

This recipe was contributed by sumagandlur on 27 Dec 2003

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