Vegetable Pulao
VEGETABLE PULAO. (Low -carb, Grain- free,
Vegan friendly )
Vegetable pulao, which is one rice dish made with different vegetables, with many variations. The dry spices like bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves gives a classic aroma to this dish and gives this rice a unique taste and flavour.
In this blog, I gave a detailed and easy to make no grain low carb vegetable pulao , prepared with riced cauliflower and vegetables with dry spices. This is low carb, keto friendly too if you stay in your daily macros. Once in a while ,one can include carrots, green peas in their meal plan.
Info
Serves-1
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Preparation Time: 15min
Cook Time : 15 min
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Ingredients
Riced cauliflower- 150 gm [check out keto rice or cauli-rice recipe in my recipe blog ]
* Carrots -cut into 1/2inch long - 60gm
* Green peas-30gm[optional ]
* Onion-thinly sliced -50gm
* Green chillies-2
* Fresh mint - handful (chopped finely)
* Clove-2
* Cinnamon-1inch
* Bayleaf -1
* Ginger garlic paste -2tsp
* Coconut oil or Ghee or Olive oil-3tsp
* Coconut butter -1tbsp(if, vegan )or Amul butter -15gm
* Salt -to taste
Directions:
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1. Heat a nonstick pan , add oil , Biryani Spices(clove, bayleaf, cinnamon), then add thinly sliced onions, green chilli.. Once the onions turn translucent , add ginger garlic paste , cook till the raw flavour of ginger garlic goes.
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2.Add chopped mint leaves and cook for 2minutes .
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3.Add carrot, green peas, to the above . Cover it with a lid and cook till the carrots are cooked till fork tender soft.
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4.Then add salt and cook for few minutes. Once carrots are cooked , add the riced cauliflower and stir. Cover and cook for few minutes on low flame.
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5.At the end, add butter to up the fat content .
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6. Serve hot with raita of choice.​​
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Note : If using frozen riced cauliflower, I would suggest to microwave the frozen cauli rice for 2-3 minutes with lid on , before adding into any keto rice dish. ​​​
