Baby corn pulao recipe - with coriander, ginger, garlic ground to give a great flavor and cooking in coconut milk gives a great taste!
Simple yet wonderful recipe using baby corn. Though I have used baby corn, you can also try this with sweet corn.
The coconut milk in this recipe makes it really flavorful and delicious. In few easy steps this is an easy one pot meal, perfect for lunch box and for lazy weekends. Yet special and delicious.
Once one of my neighbour borrowed a recipe cookbook from me and they tried it out baby corn puloa, more like biryani and passed it to us.
It was a time when we never make biryani at home because my parents place, we never use all these masalas or ginger garlic paste in our cooking.
So they sent us a bowl full of a flavourful and perfectly cooked biryani and it was awesome. I wanted to try it out like that many times but could not recreate. I am happy at least I found an equally tasty version.
Recipe card
Baby corn pulao recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 12 Baby corn
- 1 Onion
- 2 cups Coconut milk thin
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Salt
To temper
- 1 tablespoon Oil or ghee
- 1 Biryani leaf
- 1 inch Cinnamon
- 1 Cloves
- 1 Cardamom
To Grind
- ½ cup Coriander leaves
- 5 Garlic small variety
- ¼ inch Ginger
- 4 Green chilli
- ¼ teaspoon Garam masala powder
Instructions
- Soak rice for at least 10 mins in hot water before preparing any rice dishes like this.
- Cut onion to lengthwise and cut baby corn into bite size pieces.
- Grind all the ingredients under "to grind" table to a smooth paste with less water.½ cup Coriander leaves, 5 Garlic, ¼ inch Ginger, 4 Green chilli
- Heat ghee/ oil in a small cooker and add the whole spices - biryani leaf, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.
- Then add the onions, fry till pinkish, add the baby corn, ground masala and fry till raw smell goes away and oil oozes out.
- Add the soaked rice and fry for a minute.
- Pour in coconut milk (I used ready-made coconut milk) and bring it to boil.(Coconut milk should not be too thick, if it's thick then dilute to adjust it to make total 2 cups)
- Add salt and mix well. Bring to boil and cook for 2 mins in high flame.
- Later cook covered in lowest flame for 12-14 minutes.
- Whistle method: As soon as the mixture starts boiling, close and let 2 whistles in medium flame.
Video
Notes
- Use good quality basmati rice. Experiment few and stick to one brand.
- Soak atleast 10 mins for soft and moist instead of too dry results.
- Adding rice roasted in ghee can give super separate grains. Make sure not to change colour, do in medium flame. Also handle gently without breaking rice.
- I usually do all pulao by slow cooking. After rice gets ¾th done, I put the flame to lowest and cook for 12-14 mins.
- Add required salt in water itself. If you add and mix after pulao gets cooked, rice breaks.
- Fluff pulao gently once after rice is done, do not over mix to avoid broken rice.
Method
- Soak rice for at least 10 mins before preparing any rice dishes like this.
- Cut onion to lengthwise and cut baby corn into bite size pieces.
- Grind all the ingredients under "to grind" table to a smooth paste with less water.
- Heat ghee/oil in a small cooker and add the whole spices - biryani leaf, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.
- Then add the onions, fry till pinkish, add the baby corn, ground masala and fry till raw smell goes away and oil oozes out.
- Add the soaked rice and fry for a minute.
- Pour in coconut milk (I used ready-made coconut milk) and bring it to boil.(Coconut milk should not be too thick, if it's thick then dilute to adjust it to make total 2 cups)
- Add salt and mix well. Bring to boil and cook for 2 mins in high flame.
- Later cook covered in lowest flame for 12-14 minutes.
- Whistle method: As soon as the mixture starts boiling, close and let 2 whistles in medium flame.
Now baby corn pulao is ready and serve hot with onion raita or raita of your choice!
Daily Meals
Nice entry Rak's Kitchen! Like the picture...
Purnima
Rajeshwari, the idea of baby corn in pulao is wonderful!Coconut milk must hv flavored it so well! Thks for recipe n ur technique of preparing it!
Srivalli
Thanks for the lovely entry Raji..that bowl looks yummy!
srikars kitchen
LOoks delicious dear... nice click... thxs for sharing..
Dershana
Looks very nice. I too have this cook book and find it very handy.
Laavanya
I have that book too though I haven't tried out too many recipes from it. Pulao sounds so flavorful and looks awesome.
Sireesha
Looks very very tasty...
anudivya
Looks great! Did you change your blog header? Or I must be dreaming...
DEESHA
wow .. babycorn pulav looks yummy .. shall try this .. pic looks fab
LG
oh..that bowl of rice looks yumm Rak's..will keep this in mind when I buy baby corn next time.
RAKS KITCHEN
Divya,
I think you r not dreaming,but just now you have opened ur eyes wide,coz its been for a long time...the same header:D
Nags
Only the other day I thought of getting some baby corn and making some sort of rice with it. And here you are!! 🙂
Bhawna
Ur pulav looks yummy...nice picture. i've sth to share with u check my blog.
Menu Today
Hi Raks,.
Lovely presentation... thanks for sharing. I am visiting ur blog after a long time, you posted many traditional recipes.. (karunai Podimas, Keerai Kulambu)
Happy cook
I love rice plain or wirth added flavours.
This looks so yumpm even though i have never tried with corn
raaji
nice click and sounds great and healthy dear...loved the pic so much......
Jaishree
Looks very nice.the idea of baby corn in pulao is wonderful!Thanks for sharing.
Uma
mmm. delicious pulav. looks so colorful.
LG
There is an award for you in my blog 🙂
Divya
Hi Raji... till now i have not thought of buying baby corn since i didnt find any recipes that use baby corn interesting... but now that your pulao looks simple & yummy it tempts me to buy some baby corn & try this for tomorrow's lunch... my son's fav color is yellow... hope i can make him eat this "yellow meal"....
Lakshmi Canteen @ Koppa
This is an awesome recipe. We just loved it. I am going to try it with other veggies too. Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe 🙂
Adithi's Amma
thanks for the recipe. i tried it today and it came out well ! yumm!
Anonymous
Hi Raji,
I tried this today with sweet corn kernels and carrots grated and it was good. But 4 chillies was wayyyy too spicy for me. 🙂
Shobha
Ritika Murari
Hi Thanks for the recipe. it looks yummy. Can you please clarify the ratio of water and coconut milk for 1 cup rice please. Wondered if you are diluting coconut milk and adding instead water?
Early reply is much appreciate as I am hoping to cook it for lunch today.
Thank again Raks
Raks anand
Yes add water to coconut milk so that water + coconut milk together is 2 cups
Meera Chandrasekaran
Hi Raji, I tried this recipe today..It came out very well and the taste was excellent.
Sak Ura
Hi,
I tried this recipe with peas instead of baby corn. It was a huge hit at my place. Infact me and my mom prepared this recipe 4 times in the past 2 weeks. Thanks for sharing.
varma's magic
Hi,
I tried baby corn biryani today and came out awesome ..,,,
My husband too loved it....
Thanks for the recipe
rsquare
tried the dish on last sunday. Every one loved it. Awesome dish.. Thanks for sharing the recipee
Priya Sasindhran
raji mam.. u paved way for de basic learners.... thank u...
Unknown
aewsome pulaio it looks very differnt every i had tasted