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Shahi Nazar Pulao

Jul-09-2016
Swarnava Halder
30 minutes
Prep Time
45 minutes
Cook Time
2 People
Serves
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ABOUT Shahi Nazar Pulao RECIPE

My grandmother was a lady from Dhaka, Bangladesh and that is why she was an expert in cooking Dhakai dishes.This pulao is one of her Dhakai recipes that I have still now.The dish is so named due to its gorgeous, attractive looks. Grandma used to make it in the handi, but my mother now makes it in the microwave oven, easier to make but the same taste with a nice aroma.

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Medium
  • Dinner Party
  • East Indian
  • Boiling
  • Microwaving
  • Main Dish
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 2

  1. Gobindobhog Rice 1 cup (250gm)
  2. Chopped Onion 1/2 cup
  3. Finely Grated Carrot 1/2 cup
  4. Onion Paste 1 tablespoon
  5. Ginger Paste 1 tablespoon
  6. Poppy Seeds Paste 1 tablespoon
  7. Garlic Paste 1/2 tablespoon
  8. A couple of cinnamon stick (1 inches each)
  9. Four green cardamoms
  10. Four cloves
  11. One bay leaf
  12. Plain Yoghurt 1 tablespoon
  13. Rose Water 1 tablespoon
  14. Keora Water 1 tablespoon
  15. Ten to twelve soaked raisins
  16. Twelve dry roasted cashewnuts
  17. White oil 2 tablespoon
  18. Ghee 2 tablespoon
  19. Lukewarm Water 1 cup
  20. Lukewarm Milk 1/3 cup
  21. Sugar 3 tablespoon
  22. Salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Heat up a wok with some oil & ghee & fry the chopped onion to make beresta.
  2. Soak the rice in cold water for half an hour & then drain the water out.
  3. Set the Microwave Power Level at 100% i.e. high power mode & heat up a microwave safe glass bowl with the white oil & ghee.
  4. Now temper it with the cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves & cardamom for a couple of minutes.
  5. Now, add the onion & garlic paste,mix well & rotate the bowl it the oven for 3 to 4 minutes.
  6. Now add the ginger paste & poppy seeds paste & cook it for another couple of minutes.
  7. Mix the curd now & cook for 2 minutes.
  8. Now add the grated carrot in the masala mixture,mix well & cook for another 3 to 4 minutes.
  9. Add the soaked rice in the same bowl,mix very well & cook in the oven for 2 minutes.
  10. Now add the water, milk, sugar, salt, keora & rosewater, cashew nuts & raisins in it & sprinkle some ghee from the top & cook it for 16 minutes at high power.
  11. After 16 minutes, keep the bowl inside the oven for 5 minutes more as a standby time & then take it out.
  12. Garnish it with some cashew nuts, raisins & beresta & serve hot.

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Sukhmani Bedi
Jul-13-2016
Sukhmani Bedi   Jul-13-2016

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