CHANNA PULAO/LUNCH BOX IDEA
Channa pulao is one of the tastiest and protein filled pulaos I have ever tasted.I learnt this from my friend who told me how she made her her son who is a real fussy eater made this to eat.Iam always on the look out for various nutrious and filling recipes for kids to with stand hunger pangs in schools or colleges.My daughter has very tight schedules and and leaves early in the morning for college and has to travel a bit too.So keeping that in mind I try to include in her diet suffiicient balance of all dietary requirements.This pulao is healthy,has less oil and above all quick one pot meal,See below the easy recipe of channa pulao and let me know.
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| Prep Time | 480 minutes |
| Cook Time | 20 minutes |
| Servings |
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- 1/4 cup Chick Peas channa White /White
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 1 potato
- 1 onion
- 1 capsicum
- 1 tomato
- 1/2 tsp red chilli Powder
- 1/4 tsp turmeric Powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala Powder
- 1/2 Bay Leaf
- 1/2 tsp ginger Grated
- 1/2 tsp Cumin / Jeera
- to taste salt
Ingredients
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- Soak channa overnight.
- Pressure cook next morning for 3 whistles.
- Chop veggies and keep it ready.
- Soak basmati rice in water for half an hour.
- In a pan add oil,jeera,bay leaf,turmeric and grated ginger.A
- Add chopped onion.
- Add potatoes and rest of the veggies.
- Add now garam masala,red chilli powder and salt.Let the veggies soften a bit.
- Add soaked channa and rice.Add water and pressure cook.
- Channa Pulao is ready.
- Serve channa pulao with any raita of your choice or pack it for lunch with any chips or gravy.
Notes
If you want you can add green peas and red capsicum to look more colourful.
Boondi raita tastes best with this pulao.Any raita would do.
Adding turmeric powder adds a nice colour.
Delicious one pot meal.