Okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf
Okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

With low heat, add the grated ginger, add the turmeric powder, chili powder, coriander powder and salt. Mix it well with the tomatoes. Add the soaked and drained rice into the pot. Okra Pilau, or Okra Pilaf, is a low country favorite.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf:
  1. Prepare 1 cup soaked rice
  2. Get 1 pcs chopped tomato
  3. Take 1 tbsp chopped onion
  4. Prepare 1 pcs carrot
  5. Get 100 gr sliced okra/lady fingers
  6. Get 1/2 tsp grated ginger
  7. Take 2 pcs bay leaves
  8. Get 2 pcs cloves
  9. Take 1 pcs cinnamon stick (1/2 cm)
  10. Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp fennel seeds (optional)
  12. Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
  13. Take 1/2 tsp chili powder
  14. Prepare 1/2 tsp coriander powder
  15. Get 1 1/2 cup water
  16. Take 2 tbsp cooking oil
  17. Make ready 1 tsp salt

In a large skillet, cook the bacon until crisp; remove with a slotted spoon to paper towel to drain. In a saucepan, saute carrots and onion in butter until tender. Add rice and stir to coat. Stir in broth and lemon-pepper; bring to a boil.

Instructions to make Okra carrot pulao/turmeric pilaf:
  1. Soak the rice for 30 minutes and drain the water. Slice vegetables and prepare ingredients.
  2. In a heavy bottom pot, heat 2 tbsp oil, add cumin seeds, bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon stick and fennel seeds.
  3. Add the chopped onions, stir it for a moment. Add chopped tomatoes. Stir it a moment. Cover the pot and cook with low heat until tomatoes soft. Stir it in a minute to avoid it stick on the pot/get burned.
  4. With low heat, add the grated ginger, add the turmeric powder, chili powder, coriander powder and salt. Mix it well with the tomatoes. Add the sliced carrots.
  5. Add the soaked and drained rice into the pot. Stir it well.
  6. Add the one and half cup water into the pot. Bring it to boil and lower the heat. Simmer the rice until half cooked around 8 minutes.
  7. Add the sliced okra into the rice and mix it well. Cover the pot. Simmer the rice pulao for another 8 minutes until well cooked with lower heat.
  8. Switch off the heat. Steam the pulao rice with the rest of heat.
  9. Serve the pulao with some raisins and garnish with coriander leaves.

Add rice and stir to coat. Stir in broth and lemon-pepper; bring to a boil. One good thing (at least for me) about this Pilaf or Pulao (you may call it that) is that carrot exists in grated form rather than chunks. I am not a very big fan of carrot chunks in rice dishes. I love the stir fries, like in this carrot green peas stir-fry (gajar matar sabzi).

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