Ingredients:
Basmati rice - 1 1/4 cup
Yellow Pumpkin - 3/4 cup (chopped)
Carrots (big) - 1 (grated)
Sprouted green gram - 2 tsp.
Sprouted fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp.
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp.
Green cardamom - 2
Cloves - 4
Cinnamon (1 inch) - 2
Green chilies - 4
Ginger - 1 inch
Salt (to taste)
Oil
Onions - 2 (thinly sliced)
Method:
Wash basmati rice for 4-5 times and soak in water for 45 minutes.
Grind green chilies and ginger and keep aside.
Add oil, onions, cumin seeds. cardamom, cloves and cinnamon in a microwave-safe dish.
Microwave high for 4 minutes by stirring in between.
When the onions change color add ground chilies and ginger.
Microwave high for a minute.
Add pumpkins, sprouted fenugreek, carrot and green grams and microwave high for 2 minutes and stir.
Discard the water and add the rice and salt.
Add 2 1/4 cups of water and close the dish with a microwave-safe lid partially with a small gap on one side.
Microwave high for 10 minutes.
Stir gently and microwave low for 15-19 minutes or until the rice is cooked.
After 3 minutes, mix so gently that the fragile rice shouldn't be broken.
Enjoy with your favorite raita.
Sent off to "CWS-Cumin Seeds" (hosted by Saraswathi Iyer and started by Priya).
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very very creative dear...would like to taste it
pumpkin pulao is something which i havent heard till now, but what a lovely idea nandini, very nice and looks perfect even though done in a microwave...
Microwave can be used in so omany ways, I love to use it to make gravies too. So clean and faster than cooking on a stove top. Color of the Pulao is lovely.
This is a nice recipe...Wonder how it tastes
I've always wanted to have a recipe with pumpkin and rice....thanks for this pulao. It looks absolutely delicious dear.
A very creative pulao recipe! looks delicious!
This is unique..looks so perfect..would like to try this.
Nandini pulao looks delicious. I see you do lot of recipes from microwave. amazing
Wat a beautiful pulao, looks fabulous UN..never tried pumpkin in rice, thanks dear..
Pumpkin pulav sounds very unique Nandini..looks very tasty and wonderful :)
Colorful pretty pulao...microwave version will be so helpful for the busy moms out there :-)
Very creative recipe. Looks scrumptious. Love to try it sometime.
it looks mighty good nands..still cant believe that pumpking pulao can turn out this gud. and neat click too
looks so perfect in the micro too...long grains catching my over them;;;;yum
The recipe is perfectly cooked Nandhu, pumpkin pulao innovative!
interesting pulao...looks colourful dear!
interesting pulao...looks colourful dear!
Dear Nandini
How are you?
This is a very new dish for me. I must try , but will make on gas.
I have never tried sprouted methi in any dish but hear lot about it..I must try soon.
Thanks for sharing
Got to try my hands on pumpkin ,thinking for a long time.Iam being tempted on seeing ur rice nandini.Lovely clicks.
Pulao and that too with pumpkin and also microwavce cooked...wow what a combination.,,,,brilliant thought i can say....looking gr8 too...good one...
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