Posts Tagged by Pulao

Rajma Pulao ~ Kidney Beans Rice

Kidney Beans Rice, Rajma Pulao, My Legume Love Affair,

Rajma or kidney beans are kidney shaped red color beans which are very rich in fiber, protein, iron & many other nutrients. Although these beans have many health benefits, under cooked and raw beans are toxic. Dry beans need to be soaked for at least 5 hours and cooked in boiling water for at least… more

Chikkudu Annam ~ Valor Lilva (Indain Beans) Rice

Chikkudu ginjala annam, Fresh Indian Beans Rice, Fresh Val Beans Rice, Fresh Val Beans Pulao, Chikkudu Pulao, Blogging Marathon, My Legume Love Affair

After yesterday’s lengthy post on Biryanis, I am not sure how to start this one. Well, at my home, non-vegetarian rice varieties are usually biryani and the vegetarian varieties are usually bagara and annam (rice) prepared with the fresh legumes such as fresh garbanzo beans, fresh Indian broad beans or valor lilva and anapakaya or… more

Zucchini Rice

Zucchini Rice, Manjula's Kitchen Zucchini Rice

Starting today, I am on a blogging marathon for the next seven days. Just like the previous marathons, we have a theme to choose. But this time, we have an option of doing two themes, one theme for three days and the other one for four days. I picked cooking with less than five ingredients… more

Ground Chicken Vegetable Pulao

Ground Chicken & Vegetables Pulao

This recipe has been sitting in my drafts for over a year. I drafted this post a year ago when I last  made this pulao. I used to make this pulao a lot until I started making goat kheema biryani. Ever since then, we abandoned this pulao and got addicted to kheema biryani. We always… more

Fresh Garbanzo Beans Pulao with Tomato Yogurt Pachadi

Garbanzo Pulao

Last week, I visited my cousin for Diwali and she made green chana eka fresh green garbanzo beans pulao.  That made me nostalgic!  Back home, every winter, these green chana, also called hari boot or hari bhoot would make it to the dining table very often.  At times, it was our  breakfast or evening snack… more

Chicken Pulao

When growing up, one pot meat and rice dish was always Biryani and one pot vegetables and rice dish was Pulao or Bagara.   Back then, I did not acquire a taste for mutton and hence, it was always Chicken Biryani.  My aunts used to prepare Chicken Pulao but for some reason, it was never… more

Spinach Rice

spinach rice, palak rice,

Rice can be cooked in many varieties such as Biryani, vegetable pulav, green peas rice, green chana rice, spinach rice and so on. I cook all the above mentioned rice very often in my kitchen, except spinach rice. Any variety of rice served with raita is a feast to me. When I saw the Mixed… more