Plain Pulao - Desi Style

Plain Pulao Desired Texture

Hello friends, today I am going to show you very simple and a famous Indian desi recipe which is cooked in every Indian household but there are many requests asking for demonstration of famous Indian recipe Plain Pulao.

The ingredients required for Plain Pulao are as follows

1. Basmati rice 500 grams

2. Cashew Nut 60 grams

3. Raisins 25 grams

4. Pure Ghee 100 grams

5. Garam Masala whole cinnamon,Clove, Mace, Cardamom and Nutmeg.

6. Salt to taste

7. Sugar to taste

8. Rose and Kewra Water

9. Shahi Garam Masala 5 grams

Now let's start cooking

First of all we are going wash the rice properly and soak  the rice for 20 minutes.

Take a brass degchi or utensil in which we are going to prepare the pulao and put it on the flame.

Add the pure ghee and melt it. When the ghee is melted at the whole hot spices and crackle it. Now add the rice and crackle the rice in the ghee for a few minutes. 

Now add Milk or Water in double the quantity of the total amount of rice.

After the rice is three fourth cooked remove from the flame.

Fry cashew nut and raisins in ghee.

Now in a separate degchi or utensil we are going to prepare the layers of the pulao. Take half the quantity of three fourth cooked rice and spread it evenly all over the degchi. 

Now pour some quantity of liquid ghee.

Sprinkle some amount of Shahi Garam Masala over the setup. 

Sprinkle the fried cashew nut and raisins over the top.

Add some salt and sugar as per your taste buds.

Now add the Rose and Kewra water

After completing the above process we again pour a layer of three fourth cooked rice on top of it and repeat the above process. This way we prepare layers of rice for an even mix of flavours and masalas.

At the end we cover the degchi container containing the above layers of rice tightly with a airtight lid and put the setup on flame and give the rice a nice dum cook till the rice is cooked nicely.

After we are done with the dum, we put off the flame, remove the lid and mix the rice thoroughly.

And now guess what? We are done and the Plain Pulao is ready to be served hot.

Plain Pulao Ready to Serve

See it's simple and can be done easily without putting in much effort. 

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