Brown Rice Pulao with Saute BabyCorn and Onion /Healthy One Pot Meal AND Our Manali Trip-1

Brown Rice Pulao with Saute BabyCorn and Onion 

 /Healthy One Pot Meal

AND 

Our Manali Trip-1/

Walking in Memory Lane with Brown Rice Pulao

Hi Friends,

After a long time yesterday i posted recipe for my First Blog Anniversary and forgot to tell you about our small but memorable trip to Manali i mentioned in my previous post. In this post i will post some of memorable pictures of trip. It was short but full of adventure trip. Weather was just so awesome there. We (specially kids) enjoyed a lot there. First time in life i did River Crossing in which you are hanged with a rope and belt in middle of the river and moved up and down to get wet in river water. being a coward i refused to husband to try it but my five years old son insisted on doing that. After so much convincing i agree with the term of sending my son with guard. Check picture below its fun to do that but its scary also. I will divide this trip in two posts as don't want to make one post too lengthy.  Here we go-

Our bus was stopped in Mandi (100km before Manali) 5' o clock in the morning to get fresh, this is our VOLVO we traveled. It was so comfortable, spacious and clean that you will feel like travelling in Mercedes . Yes this bus is made by Mercedes company.

Our Bus was running along with this river

quite scary for me. can you see the distance between river and our bus. I took this picture from my seat without zoom

after reaching hotel at 9am we ordered our breakfast which was included in our Hotel Package. Everything was so fresh and yummy.

My God, i am hungry again

 View from my room at hotel in Manali. You just have to cross the road and you will reach a beautiful point for adventure sports (see pics below)

After crossing road you will reach here and then you have to cross this wooden bridge to reach adventure sports like River Crossing.

or you can simply sit under these umbrellas, munch upon snacks and enjoy the nature. There is a big river behind this. 

This is the river you will reach. imagine you are sitting between two rivers and cool breeze is making you shiver a bit. You can see my daughter in floral frock hanging on the rope with river crossing guard in blue t-shirt.

my daughter enjoying River crossing with guard. She was totally wet.

This is how they chill there cold drinks.

Water flowing in the river is chilled. you can't put your feet in it more then 10 seconds.

You will get all kind of snacks beside this river like chowmein, bhutta (corn), bhel puri, tea, coffee, cold drink and surprisingly most popular and consumed snack there was MAGGIE  even i was surprised to see that. 

FOR MORE SNAPS PLEASE READ MY NEXT POST AS I DON'T WANT TO OVERCROWD MY POST.

Today's post is very healthy and yummy pulao made with Baby corn, onion and tomato. Since long i wanted to make this pulao and finally yesterday night i got chance to make it as dinner. as i didn't wanted to make elaborated meal i made ONE POT MEAL. You can have it as it is or with any side dish. I had it with Cucumber Raita. You will love this pulao in summers, winter and specially in mansoon. This is so yummy and healthy that you will make it again and again.

Prepration Time- 5 minutes

Cooking Time- 25 minutes

Total Servings- 4 People

Ingredients:-
Brown Rice - 1.5 cup
Baby Corn- 6 (slit length wise)
Onion- 1 medium (slit length wise)
Tomato-1 medium chop roughly
Cumin Seeds- 1 tsp
Olive Oil- 4 tsp
Star Anise- 1
Jaifal - 2-3
Garm Masala- 1 tsp
Salt- as per your taste

Method:-

Ingredients

                                 

Heat 5 cups water and 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp olive oil and start oiling

Add brown rice in it and cook

till then rice are cooking

puree tomatoes

heat one 1 tsp oil in kadai

add slit baby corn and saute them

don't overcook them

remove

now add onions ans saute

when they are bit browned 

  

now add saute baby corn in it

mix well ans saute for 15 seconds and remove

Now add remaining 2 tsp olive oil in same kadai

crackle cumin seeds in it

add jaifal and star anise

now add pureed tomatoes

let it cooked

when they are cooked add all spices

when it cooked well 

add one cup water

till we will do this process rice will be cooked 90% 

now add these rice in cooked tomato puree

Cover and cook for one minute

Now pulao is almost done

Now spread saute corn and onion on top

Cover and cook for half minute

Pulao is ready to SERVE

Linking this to http://indian-delights.blogspot.in/2013/06/event-annoucement-monsoon-temptations.html


http://merrytummy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/event-annoucement-and-giveaway-cook.html


http://cooksjoy.com/blog/2013/06/dish-it-out-lentilslegumes-and-vegetables-event-announcement.html


http://www.sizzlingtastebuds.com/2013/06/hosting-healthy-me-and-healthy-us-event.html


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Notes:-

1. If you want to enjoy real taste of pulao then please follow recipe as cooked brown rice have bit dry texture so to make it as one pot meal i added tomato puree and spices in it. You can enjoy it as it is or with any side dish.
2. You can mix baby corn and onion in pulao but then it will loose its crunchiness. I preferred bit crunchiness so avoided to mix it in hot rice.
3. You can choose spices as per your choice. You can also add some tomato sauce to enhance the flavor.
4. You can also use your favorite veggies to top up. Just saute them a bit and spread on top when rice is almost done.

HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT

Love
PariCash

Baby Corn Pakoda/Fritter

Baby corn Pakoda/Babycorn Fritters

Hi Friends,

Yesterday was an amazing day. After a whole day flown away with badly shining sun and suddenly in the evening a heavy rain started and lasted up to one hour. Just before all working people preparing to get back to their home. Nobody imagined this kind of situation. After heavy showers when people came out of their office to move ahead all were shocked as all streets were flooded with water.  These floods reminded my school and collage days. I was not a kid who avoid schools in monsoon, i was the one who reaches school before teachers. Yes i really that much enjoy monsoon. Even in collage time i entered in the classroom where hardly any student was present. I don't mind flooded streets and heavy rain. I enjoy them. Really.

I was stucked in the jam. Its only thing which bothers me,  As i have to prepare dinner and also need to prepare for kids school in the morning. So it become more hectic when you reach by the time dinner shuld be finished and then you start preparing that. So now to the recipe, i tried these fritters first time and it reminded me about my mom,s rice flour fritter which she makes for us in monsoon. So these fritters are dedicated to my MOM. Try them and enjoy with monsoon showers.

Prep Time- 5-7 min

Cooking time- 15 min

Ingredients:-

Baby corn- 10-15 pieces

Rice Flour - 2 tbsp

Cornflour - 2 tsp

Red Chilly pdr - 1/2 tsp (optional)

Amchoor Pdr - 1 tsp

Salt - as per your taste

Method:-

Gather your ingredients

Cut babycorn length wise

Heat water in a pan and throw babycorn in it and cook for 5 min

Drain them

Now spread on kitchen towel and pet them dry

By the time babycorn are cooking in water prepare your batter

Mix rice flour+cornflour+all spices

Add water and make bit thick batter

Heat oil for frying

Dip babycorn in batter

slowly slip in heated oil

(oil should be medium hot)

Let them golden brown 

CRISPY CRUNCHY PAKODA READY TO SERVE

SERVE WITH YOUR FAVORITE SAUCE

ending to Jagruti's event Celebrating Monsoon of India

Sending this to Radhika,s event http://www.ticklingpalates.com/2012/08/lets-cook-18-starters-appetizers.html

Sending to Srivalli's event  http://cooking4allseasons.blogspot.in/2012/08/announcing-30-minutes-mela.html

Sending it to Gathari's event Wlak thorough memory lane 

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Senidng to Kalyani's event http://www.sizzlingtastebuds.com/2012/08/desi-videsi-food-fest-new-event.html

Ren's Simple and In season

Sending this to Jagruti's event KNOW YOUR FLOUR-RICE FLOUR, http://www.jagrutidhanecha.com/p/series-of-celebrate-and-other-events.html

hosted by Nithu http://www.nithubala.com/2012/08/event-announcement-know-your-flour-rice.html

Also sending to Jagruti's event Celebrating Monsoon of India

which is hosted by http://www.ahomemakersdiary.com/2012/07/announcing-jco-monsoon-of-india.html

Sending this to Sangee's event -Show me your hits-RICE
http://www.spicytreats.net/p/spicy-treats-event-schedule.html, Hosted by Cooks Joy http://cooksjoy.com/blog/2012/07/show-me-your-hits-rice-event-announcement.html

Notes:-

1. I added 1 tbsp cornflour so fritter was sticking to the teeth, so here i asked to add only 2 tsp.
2. I made fritters for kids without adding chilly pdr and after that added chilly pdr and made for husband and others. 
3. Don't cook babycorn more then 5 min. it will become soggy.
4. It is important to pet dry and remove access water from babycorn before making fritters.

HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT

LOVE

PariCash