The Veg Paneer pulao recipe is a fragrant, delectable, and mildly spiced dish cooked with aromatic ground pulao masala, long grain rice, onions, herbs, and paneer (and sometimes added with other veggies like capsicum, beans, green peas, and carrot).
Pilaf or pilau /pulao is a rice dish, or in some regions, a wheat dish, whose recipe usually involves cooking in broth, adding herbs, spices, and other ingredients such as vegetables or meat(chicken, mutton, etc), and employing some unique technique to achieve cooked grains are not adhering to each other.
The types of equipment required for this recipe are
- Mixing Bowl
- Blender
- Pressure cooker/pan with lid
- Spatula
The Ingredients Required for Veg Paneer Pulao Recipe
For marinating paneer
- Paneer cubes-150 gm
- Ginger-garlic paste- 1 tbsp
- Gram flour-2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder-1/2 tbsp
- Garam masala-1/2 tbsp
- Kasuri methi-1 tbsp
- Cumin-coriander powder-1 tbsp
- Red chili powder-1/2 tbsp
- Ghee for frying the paneer-1 tbsp
For boiling the rice / making pulao
- Rice; Use long-grain basmati rice, for better result, as they are not as sticky as other rice
- Bay leaves-2
- Cardamom-2
- Black cardamom- 1
- Cinnamon- ½ inch stick
- Cloves-5
- Nut Meg (Jaiphal)-1/4th
- Mace (Javitri)-2 strings
- Ghee-3 tbsp
- Carrot (cut into small pieces)-1/2 cup
- Capsicum (cut into small pieces) – 1/2 cups
- Beans (cut into small pieces) -1/2 cups
- Coriander leaves1/2 cup
- Onions-1
- Salt
Preparation: how to make Veg Paneer Pulao Recipe
Take paneer cubes in a mixing bowl, and add all the spices for marinating, mix and rub the paneer cubes with the spices, and keep aside to rest for 15 minutes
Heat ghee in a pan and fry well the paneer cubes, and keep them aside
Add leftover ghee to the same pan, and add the whole spices (bay leaves, mace, nutmeg, cinnamon, green and black cardamom), and sauté them for 20 seconds
Add chopped onions, and fry them till translucent
Add carrots, capsicums, and beans and stir them for a minute
Now add the soaked basmati rice and mix them well
Add water and salt and mix them well (use the same quantity of water and rice)
Add chopped coriander leaves and cover the lid, and allow them to cook for 10-12 minutes on low flame (in between checks 2-3 times)
When the rice is almost cooked, then open the lid and add the fried paneer cubes, mix them well, and cover the top again for two minutes to set them
Open the cover, and serve hot with raita or pickle
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Veg Paneer Pulao Recipe
Equipment
- pressure cooker
- blender
- mixing bowl
- A kadai or a fry pan
- Spatula
Ingredients
Formarinating paneer
- 150 gm paneer cubes
- 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
- 2 tbsp Besan/Bengal gram flour
- 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tbsp Garam masala
- 1 tbsp kasuri methi
- 1 tbsp cumin- coriander powder
- 1/2 tbsp red chili powder
- 1 tbsp ghee
Forboiling the rice / making pulao
- 250 gm Long grain basmati rice
- 2 green cardamom
- 5 black cardamom
- 1/2 inch cinamom stick
- 5 Cloves
- 1/4th nut meg
- 2 string mace
- 1/2 cup carrot(cut into small pieces)-
- 1/2 cup capsicum,(cut into small pieces)-
- 1/2 cup beans(cut into small pieces)-
- 1 cup Onion(cut into small pieces)-
- 2 tbsp Chopped coriander leaves
- salt
- 3 tbsp ghee
Instructions
- Take paneer cubes in a mixing bowl, and add all the spices for marinating,mix and rub the paneer cubes with the spices, and keep aside to rest for 15minutes
- Heat ghee in a pan and fry well the paneer cubes, and keep them aside
- Add left over ghee in the same pan, and add the whole spices (bay leaves,mace, nutmeg, and cinnamon, green and black cardamom), and sauté them for 20seconds
- Add chopped onions, and fry them till translucent
- Add carrots, capsicums and beans and stir them for a minute
- Now add the soaked basmati rice and mix them well
- Add water and salt and mix them well (use same quantity of water andrice)
- Add chopped coriander leaves and cover the lid, and allow them to cookfor 10-12 minutes in low flame (in between check 2-3 times)
- When the rice is almost cooked, then open the lid and add the friedpaneer cubes, and mix them well, and cover the lid again for two minutes to setthem
- Open the cover, and serve hot with raita or pickle