Mint/Pudina Pulav Recipe – Mint Recipe – Indian Recipe

Ingredients –

1. Soaked Basmati  rice for 15 –20 minutes –1 cup
2. Vegetable Oil / Butter–2 tbsp.
3. Cumin seeds –1 tsp.
4. Bay leaves –2 -3
5. Cinnamon stick–1/2 inch
6. Salt to taste
7. Boiled peas or frozen peas –1/2 cup
8. Sliced onions – 1 cup
9. A pieces of ginger 
10. Garlic –2-3 cloves
11. Whole green chilly –as per your taste
12. Mint (Pudina) – 1 cup (wash and clean)
13. Cashew or ground nuts –10 -15
14. Fried onions – 2 tbsp. (optional)

Method –

• Put mint leaf, ginger, green chilly and garlic into the blender.
• Add little water and make a paste.
• Heat oil into the pan/kadhai on medium heat.
• Add cumin seeds, bay leaves, cinnamon stick and sauté for few minutes.
• Add cashew nuts and cook for few seconds.
• Add sliced onions and cook till onions becomes little transparent.
• Add peas, salt to taste and cook for few minutes.
• Add mint paste and cook for 2 –3 minutes on medium heat.
• Soak rice in the water at 1:2 ratio respectively.
• Add soaked rice in mint paste, mix well and let it boil.
• Once water starts boiling, cover and cook for another 2 minutes on low on medium heat.
• After 2 minutes, keep stirring, cover and cook till the rice is cooked properly.
• Turn off the heat and garnish with fried onion.
• Mint/Pulav is ready to serve with any kind of raita.