Tri Colour Pulao

Ingredients

• • Basmati rice - 1 ½ cups
• • Salt - as required
• • Ghee - 4 tablespoons
• • French beans (cooked, diced) - ¼ cup
• • Peas (cooked) - ¼ cup
• • Carrots (grated) - ½ cup
• • Onions (cut lengthwise) - 2
• • Cauliflower (cooked) - 1
• • Tomato sauce - 1 tablespoon
• • Tomato (diced) - 1
• • Coconut extract - 1 cup
• • Water - 1 cup
• • Tomato juice - ½ cup
• • Lemon - 1

Ingredients For Green Layer - Grinding Together

• • Coriander leaves - ½ bunch
• • Mint leaves - ½ bunch
• • Coconut (grated) - 2 tablespoons
• • Ginger - 1 inch piece
• • Green chillies - 3
• • Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Salt - as required

Method

• 1. Grind "For Green layer - Grinding together" into smooth paste and mix juice of half a lemon to this. Press each layer of rice firmly and then arrange another layer.
• 2. Wash and soak 1 cup of rice separately.
• 3. And ½ cup of rice separately.
• 4. Pour 1 cup of coconut extract and one cup of water to the first one.
• 5. To half cup of rice, mix half cup of tomato juice and half cup of water.
• 6. Pressure cook both, in separate containers for 15 minutes.
• 7. Remove from fire and cool both thoroughly and separate the grains.
• 8. Divide the white cooked rice equally into two portions.
• 9. To one portion of the cooked rice mix green chutney with enough salt and ghee.
• 10. Add cooked peas and beans.
• 11. Keep separately.
• 12. To the second portion of the white rice, mix fried onions, cauliflower, salt and ghee which is spluttered with cumin seeds.
• 13. Mix little pepper powder also.
• 14. To the red coloured rice mix grated carrots, fried tomatoes, sauce, salt and little chilly powder.
• 15. Take a medium sized vessel and apply ghee or oil liberally inside, taking care to grease sides also.
• 16. First arrange green layer and then white layer and sprinkle little thick beaten curds on top.
• 17. Carefully arrange red layer on top of that.
• 18. Press firmly and steam in a pressure cooker for 7 to 10 minutes.
• 19. Invert carefully on a serving plate.
• 20. Decorate top with fried onion rings and cashew nuts.
• 21. This rice can be baked in a hot oven for 10 minutes, covered with aluminium foil.