Electric rice cooker  Recipes

Pullao

1.Masala pulao

Ing:

Rice – one cup

Onions chopped – one medium size

Garam masala powder – one tsp

Chillie powder – as per choice

Salt to taste water

Method:

Wash rice well and add the required amount of water. [usually it is 2 cups of water to 1 cup of rice] Add all the ingredients to the rice  and place it in the electric cooker and let it cook.[about 20 – 25 mins max] Add a tsp of ghee or oil to the cooked pulao and use a fork to fluff the rice.

Serve it with any type of gravy or dal, fresh veg.salad, pachidis, papads, pickle, curd raitha etc.

2.Veg. pulao

Ing:

French beans chopped – 100 gms[or just take a fist full of beans and chop it up]

Carrots chopped – one medium size

Green chillie slit – as per choice

Whole garam masala[clove –three (lavangam), cinnamon (pattai) – about an inch , cardamom,crushed lightly  - one]

Rice – one cup

Water as required

Salt to taste

Ghee – about a tsp

Method :

Wash the rice well and add all the ingredients to it and let it cook.Once the rice is cooked , add the ghee and fluff the rice with a fork.

Green peas pulao can be cooked in the same manner,the peas ( about half or three- fourths of a cup ) should be thawed in advance and should be added to the rice when the rice is almost done.

Another easy dish to prepare in the rice cooker is the humble Ven pongal  I would call a powerful delicacy any time.

Ing:

Rice – half a cup

Moong dal or paasi paruppu – one fourth of a cup

Pepper corns ,crushed – a few

Ginger ,minced  - about one centimetre

Salt to taste

Water – about one and half cups

Milk – about three fourths of a cup

Method:

Wash the rice and dal well , add  all the ingredients to it and let it cook. Once it is done add a tsp of ghee to it and fluff with a fork.

Serve with sambhar or coconut chutney.

If any one has a specific dish in mind please let me know, will put up the recipe .