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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tomato Paneer pulao

I just made this accidentally as I was lazy to cook a full meal and to my surprise this has bagged a place on my husbands favorite dishes list :)
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice
- 1 cup water
- 2 medium tomatoes finely chopped
- 1/2 large onion finely chopped
- 3 green chillies
- 2 red chillies (optional)
- 1 tbsp ghee/butter/oil
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 8-10 paneer cubes (upto you as to how much u wanna add)
- 1 tsp kasturi methi
- salt per taste
Recipe
- Heat the ghee/oil/butter in a pressure cooker
- once the ghee is hot add cumin seeds and wait till they splutter.Now add green chillies, red chillies and fry for another minute.Add onion, bay leaf, coriander powder and fry for two minutes
- Once the onions are well cooked, add paneer cubes and fry for 3 mins.Now add tomatoes and cook for 4-5 minutes untill the tomatoes are completely cooked and form a thick gravy
- Add kasturi methi powder and cook for a minute
- Add rice and fry for another 3 minutes.add salt and water.
- Cover the pressure cooker with a lid and cook up to 3 whistles.
- Open the lid once the pressure has escaped and serve

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