Sweet corn and peas pulao is a healthy rice recipe made with sweet corn and peas. This sweet corn rice recipe is a one pot meal and can be made for lunch or dinner or can be packed in the lunch box too. The corn pulao recipe is very simple and easy to cook. This recipe is healthy and kid-friendly too.
Course Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine Indian, North Indian, South Indian
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 40 minutesminutes
Servings 4People
Author Raksha Kamat
Ingredients
For boiling the rice:
1 and 1/2cupsBasmati rice
1teaspoonblack pepper powder
1bay leaf
5black peppercorns
2cloves
For pulao masala paste:
1cupcoriander leaveschopped
1green chilislit
8pepper corns
2cloves/laung
1teaspooncumin seeds/jeera
10garlic podspealed and chopped
1inchcinnamon/dalchini
1cardamom/elaichi
For the pulao vegetable mix:
2medium sized onionsfinely chopped
2medium sized tomatoesfinely chopped
1tablespoonginger garlic paste
1cupsweet corn kernel
1/2cupgreen peas
4tablespoonchopped coriander leaves
2tablespoonchili sauce
1bay leaf
To tastesalt
4tablespoonoil
Instructions
Par boil the basmati rice either on gas stove or pressure cooker or rice cooker by adding one bay leaf, 5 black peppercorns and 2 cloves. Once the rice is par boiled, take a fork and run it through the rice. Sprinkle the rice with 1 teaspoon black pepper powder and keep aside.
Take the sweet corn and green peas, boil them and keep aside. You can exclude this step if you are using canned sweet corn and green peas.
In a mixer, add the ingredients mentioned in - For pulao masala paste (refer to ingredients section)- that is coriander leaves, chopped, green chili, black pepper corns, cloves/laung, cumin seeds/jeera, garlic pods, cinnamon/dalchini
and cardamom/elaichi. Grind by adding 2 tablespoon water to a fine paste. Keep this aside.
In a kadai, add 4 tablespoon oil and fry till onion turns pinkish. Then add bay leaf and chopped coriander (Refer to ingredients mentioned in For the pulao vegetable mix) and fry. Stir and add chopped tomatoes.
Add ginger garlic paste and stir.
Add the ground masala paste from the mixer and stir well.
Next add boiled sweet corn and green peas and mix well.
Add green chili sauce and stir.
Add little salt to taste. Remember we will be adding salt again after mixing the rice, so add less salt.
Next is add the boiled rice and mix well ensuring that the rice grains do not break. Adjust salt again.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.
Notes
If you are using frozen sweet corn kernels and green peas, then thaw and then boil them.
You can add other veggies like beans, carrots, mushrooms and soya chunks while making the pulao masala mix.