Sunday, October 6, 2013

Corn (Maize) pulao

 This is a nice dish to cook up for friends during the season when corn is available. You don’t need to spend hours in the kitchen so that you can spend time with them too!

Ingredients:

Rice     - 1 cup
Corn    - ¾ cup
Water   - 2 1/2cups
Salt to taste
Oil        - 1 tbsp
Jeera    - 1/ tsp
Onion cut         - 2 tbsps
Ginger cut fine  - ½ tsp -
Turmeric powder          - 1/3 tsp
Chilli powder    - ½ tsp
Coriander powder        - 1 tsp
Garam masala   - ½ tsp

Method:

- Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add jeera, then the cut onion, ginger and sauté them.
- Keep the flame low and add the corn, keep stirring. After half a inute, add all the masala powders and washed rice (if you can soak the rice for ten minutes, it is good), and salt.
- Pressure cook for 5 minutes. Cool and open the cooker.
-Serve with raita, papad and pickle.




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