Green Peas Pulav Recipe – One Pot Recipes

Green Peas Pulav is a healthy recipe for lunch. This pulav is quick and easy to make too.

It can be made in one shot in one pot, my favorite cooking way!

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Green Peas are rich in vitamins and minerals and also have good dietary fiber. Here is the quick recipe.

Green Peas Pulav Recipe

Ingredients

1. Fresh Green Peas – 1/2 cup
2. Rice – 1 cup
3. Carrot – 1 medium (optional)
4. Onion – 1/2 cup finely chopped
5. Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
6. Green chili – 1 slit vertically
7. Mint leaves (pudina) – handful (chopped)
8. Coriander leaves (kothamalli/kothimeera) – handful (chopped)
9. Cinnamon bark (patta/dalchina chakka) – 1 small piece
10. Cloves (grambu/lavangam) – 5
11. Cardamom (Elachi/Elaka) – 1
12. Fennel seeds powder (saunf/sompu) – 1 tsp
13. Oil – 1 tbsp
14. Salt – as needed
15. Water – 2 cups or Coconut milk – 2 cups

Method

• Wash and soak the rice.
• Heat a cooker pan on the stove and add oil to it.
• Once the oil heats up, fry the cloves, cardamom, cinnamon for 30 seconds. Then add the ginger garlic paste and fry for 30 more seconds.
• Add onion and fry for a minute. Now add the green chili.
• Add fennel seeds powder, coriander leaves and mint leaves and fry for a few seconds.
• Add the green peas also now and fry for a minute.
• Add the rice and water (or coconut milk) along with needed salt and stir.
• Close the cooker and let it cook for 3 whistles.
• Now Green Peas Pulav is ready!
• Serve it with raitha or curd and chips.

Also read: Tamarind rice recipe (Puliogare/Pulihora)

Tips

• You can skip the carrot. I added it to make the pulav colorful for my kids.
• You can replace the green chili with red chili powder if you like.
• Top it off with cashew nuts before serving to give it a tempting look.
• Use coconut milk to give this pulav a rich taste.
• If you have frozen peas, thaw them in the refrigerator one hour before making this pulav.
• If you have dry peas, soak them for 6 hours before you prepare Green peas pulav.
• I like this Food to Live Green Peas brand.

Also read: One Pot Lunch Veg Recipes and Ideas

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