Description
Super Exotic, delectable, fluffy Kashmiri Pulao recipe with nuts and raisins wonderfully easy with just a few ingredients.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of basmati rice
- 2 tbs ghee
- 2 cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp pepper corns
- 1 tsp shahi jeera
- 2 black cardamom
- 3 cloves
- 5 star anise
- 2 bay leaf
- 1/4 cup milk
- 10 threads saffron
- 2 tsp fennel powder
- 1 cup milk
To garnish:
- 1 tbs ghee
- 2 tbs cashews
- 2 tbs raisins
- 2 onions
Instructions
- Ingredients to make Kashmiri pulao are taken
- To a 1/4 cup of warm milk add 1 pinch of saffron, stir and keep aside.
- Heat up 2 tbs of ghee in deep pot
- Now add the seasonings 1 tsp of pepper corns, 2 cardamom, 1 tsp of shahi jeera, 2 cinnamon stick, 4 cloves, 2 bay leaf, 2 black cardamom
- Add in to the ghee, let it sizzle for few seconds
- Add fennel powder
- Let it sizzle for few seconds
- Now add soaked basmati Rice
- Stir the rice gently in ghee for 1 minute.
- Pour in the saffron infused milk
- Gently mix in
- Add 1/2 cup of milk
- And required amount of water
- Over the medium heat,Cover and cook for 10 mins until the rice is fluffy.
To Garnish:
- Heat up ghee in pan, add cashews and fry till they are golden brown
- Then, add raisins and fry for few seconds
- And Add sliced onions and a pinch of salt
- Fry till the onions are nicely browned.
- All the fried garnishes are kept in the plate.
- Once the rice is cooked, add all the fried garnishes
- Gently mix and serve.
Notes
Tips to make the best Kashmiri Pulao:
Basmati rice. Use good quality basmati rice or any long grain rice to get the fluffy pulao.
Ghee. The recipe itself made of ghee that gives you a richness to the pulao recipe and it tastes luxuriously good. Using good quality ghee is a must. You can get it from the local Indian shop/ Asian grocery section from the supermarket.
Saffron: Infuse saffron in warm milk, that helps to get the lovely yellow colour and also the flavour is fantastic.
Milk. To cook the rice I have added milk and water. Milk gives you nice mild taste and fluffiness to the rice.
You can add 1 tbs of cream as well.
Cook your rice. To cook the basmati rice read the package instruction and then measure and add water.
For this recipe, I have used 1 cup of Rice = 2 cups of water (closed pan)
Garnish: fry all your garnishes in ghee to get the right flavours. You can any type of nuts and dry fruits.
Kashmiri Pulao with Fruits: Traditionally Kashmiri Pulao has fruit in it, you can add apple, pomegranate, fried paneer/cottage cheese can be added as a garnish.
- Category: Main, Main Course, Rice veg
- Cuisine: Indian, northindian
