Peas Pulav | Green Peas Rice | Bachelor Cooking Recipes

Peas Pulav is a simple and flavorful one pot meal. When you don’t have any veggies left over in your pantry you can just prepare this aromatic peas pulav in very less time. Green Peas are a good source of protein too. This is a very mild variety of rice with fewer spices and full of flavors This doesn’t need any side dish and goes well even with just plain curd. Can be a great lunch box recipe too. While your guests are waiting in your drawing room, you can prepare this pulav within minutes. Using frozen peas makes your life easier but feel free to use the traditional yellow/white peas. The only task that you need to do extra is to remember to soak them the previous night. And you know what? You can substitute the green peas with some finely cut green chillis too..I love making simple pulavs and rice items for my lunch box and it would be a perfect fit for people like me who are lazy to carry more boxes:) You check out my different and simple rice varieties here.

Takes 30 min;Serves 3

INGREDIENTS:

Frozen Green Peas – ½ cup
Basmati Rice – 2 cups
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Oil – 1 tbsp
Cloves -2
Green Cardamom – 2
Cinnamon -1/2 inch
Star anaise -1
Bay Leaf – 1
Onions sliced – 1/2
Ginger Garlic paste – 1/2 tbsp
Green chills slit – 3

METHOD:

Soak basmati rice in plenty of water for 1 hour.15 min should be also fine if you are in a hurry.
Thaw green peas and wash them well. If using white peas cook them in pressure cook until 2 whistles once they are soaked overnight.

Heat oil and ghee together in a cooker or heavy bottomed vessel and start frying the whole spices like cardamom, cloves and cinnamon for 2 min.
Add chilli and onions.Fry for a min and add the ginger garlic paste.Fry until the raw smell goes off.

Add in the green peas and mix well. Adjust salt and cook it closed for 10 min.
Pour in 3 ½ glasses of water and boil on high flame by adjusting some salt. This should take a good amount of 10 min. Add in the rice in boiling water and cook on high flame foe 5 min.