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 atleast I found an equally tasty version.
Baby corn pulao recipe
Ingredients
- Basmati rice – 1 cup
- baby corn – 12
- Onion – 1
- Coconut milk- 2 cups thin
- Biryani leaf – 1
- Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
- Cinnamon – 1 inch piece
- Cloves- 1
- Cardamom – 1
- Salt – As needed
- Oil/ghee – 2 tbsp
To Grind
- coriander leaves – ½ cup
- Garlic 5 small variety
- Ginger – ¼ inch piece
- Green chilli – 4
- Garam masala powder – ¼ tsp
Instructions
- 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.
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.
How to make baby corn pulao 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 pulav is ready and serve hot with onion raita or raita of your choice!
I am sending this pulav to my dear friend Srivalli of cooking for all seasons ,for the event Rice Mela!
Nice entry Rak’s Kitchen! Like the picture…
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!
Thanks for the lovely entry Raji..that bowl looks yummy!
LOoks delicious dear… nice click… thxs for sharing..
Looks very nice. I too have this cook book and find it very handy.
I have that book too though I haven’t tried out too many recipes from it. Pulao sounds so flavorful and looks awesome.
Looks very very tasty…
Looks great! Did you change your blog header? Or I must be dreaming…
wow .. babycorn pulav looks yummy .. shall try this .. pic looks fab
oh..that bowl of rice looks yumm Rak’s..will keep this in mind when I buy baby corn next time.
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
Only the other day I thought of getting some baby corn and making some sort of rice with it. And here you are!! 🙂
Ur pulav looks yummy…nice picture. i’ve sth to share with u check my blog.
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)
I love rice plain or wirth added flavours.
This looks so yumpm even though i have never tried with corn
nice click and sounds great and healthy dear…loved the pic so much……
Looks very nice.the idea of baby corn in pulao is wonderful!Thanks for sharing.
mmm. delicious pulav. looks so colorful.
There is an award for you in my blog 🙂
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"….
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 🙂
thanks for the recipe. i tried it today and it came out well ! yumm!
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
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
Yes add water to coconut milk so that water + coconut milk together is 2 cups
Hi Raji, I tried this recipe today..It came out very well and the taste was excellent.
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.
Hi,
I tried baby corn biryani today and came out awesome ..,,,
My husband too loved it….
Thanks for the recipe
tried the dish on last sunday. Every one loved it. Awesome dish.. Thanks for sharing the recipee
raji mam.. u paved way for de basic learners…. thank u…
aewsome pulaio it looks very differnt every i had tasted