Shrimp and Vegetables Pulav

Shrimp is one of my favorite sea food. Below recipe an easy to make rice when I don't feel like making any curry.


Ingredients:

Basmati rice - 3 cups
Butter/ Ghee             - 2 Tbsps

Shrimp - 1lb skin and tail removed

Onions - 1/4 cup

Green chillies - 4 (slit long)

Turmeric - 1/2 spoon

Red Chilli Powder - 2 tsps

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Bay leaves - 2

Cloves - 3

Cardamom - 4

Shajeera - 1tsp

Cinnamon - 1/2 stick 

Cilantro - as needed

Garam masala - 1 pinch

Jeera powder - 2 pinches tsp

carrots - 1/4 cup chopped

Fresh peas - 3 Tbsp

Cashews - 3 Tbspoons

lemon Juice - 2 Tbsps

Salt - as needed

Oil - as needed

Method:

Wash basmati rick and let it soak for 15 minutes. In a rice cooker, add 1/2 spoon of salt, 2 Tbsps of butter, whole spices (cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and bay leaves) and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan. Add Shrimp and saute it for 5 minutes. As you see the water evapourating from the shrimp, add 1/2 spoon chilli powder,turmeric, 1/4 spoon salt. Mix it well and let it cook well. Take this into a bowl.

Heat oil in the same pan and add shajeera. Stir it. Add onions and let it cook until it turns into golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste and mix it. Let it cook for 30 seconds. Add green peas, green chillies, jeera powder and cashews. Mix well and wait for a minute. 

Now add cooked shrimp to it.Stir and close the lid and let it cook for 5 minutes.

Add red chilli powder,salt, Dhaniya powder, garam masala and stir well. Let it cook for 3 more minutes. Turn off the stove and mix this to the rice and cook it.After the rice is cooked, add 2 tbsps of lemon juice on the top.

Take it in a bowl and garnish it with cilantro.

Can be eaten with Raita.