Pulao are always special in my home. This time it is Semiya Pulao. This is a quick and easy breakfast dish. We can add many vegetables to make it rich. The flavour of vegetables cooked with vermicilli and whole garam masala along with rich flavour of mint leaves, gives a divine taste to this dish.
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| Semiya Pulao | Vermicilli Pulao |
This is a great lunch box dish too. My daughter love this dish and would like to have it atleast once a week for her lunch
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| Semiya Pulao | Vermicilli Pulao |
| Preparation Time | 15 mins |
| Cooking Time | 30mins |
| Servings | 4 |
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| Semiya Pulao | Vermicilli Pulao |
Ingredients:
| Vermicilli / Semiya | 2 Cups* |
| Tomato | 1 |
| Onion | 1 |
| Potato | 1 small size |
| Carrot | 1 |
| Beans | 10 |
| Peas | 1 tablespoon |
| Mint Leaves | 20 |
| Salt | To Taste |
| Chopped Ginger | 1 teaspoon |
| Chopped Garlic | 1 teaspoon |
| Water | 3.5 Cups |
| Chopped Coriander Leaves | 1 tablespoon |
| Ghee | ½ teaspoon |
* 1 cup = 250 ml capacity
For Seasoning:
| Cooking Oil | 1 teaspoon |
| Cumin Seeds | 1 teaspoon |
| Cinnamon Stick | 1 |
| Cloves | 2 |
| Cardamom | 2 |
| Bay Leaf | 1 |
| Green Chillies | 2 |
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| Semiya Pulao | Vermicilli Pulao |
Method:
- Finely chop the onions, tomatoes and other vegetables. Heat a pan and add ghee and roast the semiya till it turns golden brown color
- Add oil to the pan and add cumin seeds, when the cumin seeds starts to sputter, add bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom and fry for 20 seconds. Then add slit green chillies and saute for another 20 seconds
- Now, add the chopped onions along with a pinch of salt and saute them till the onions turn transparent. Then add chopped ginger, garlic and saute them for 10 seconds. Then add chopped tomatoes and saute them
- When the tomatoes are cooked, add chopped vegetables and mint leaves and stir-fry in medium high flame till the vegetables are almost cooked. Finally add peas and give a quick stir
- Add water to the cooked vegetables along with the salt needed for the pulao. Remember we have already added a pinch of salt while sauting the onions. When the water starts to boil, add roasted semiya and quickly give a stir
- Keep in medium flame and allow the semiya to cook completely. When the water is fully evaporated, close the pan with a lid and cook for another 5 minutes in very low flame. Finally garnish the semiya pulao with chopped coriander leaves
- The yummy Semiya Pulao is now ready to serve or ready for lunch box!!! Serve with Raitha.
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| Semiya Pulao | Vermicilli Pulao |
