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This beetroot pulao is suggested by a reader (Aby Senthil) when I posted Channa pulao. She mailed immediately saying we can try beetroot pulao same way as my channa pulao. And sent the recipe too. So one day I tried and turned out great. Aj loved it. Me too loved it. Once when we went to our mama’s house my mami had made biryani with beetroot. Usually we don’t add beets in Biryani, so it was quite different, attractive and tasty too. But never tried on my own. This is the first time I made and will make it often for ourselves. Do try it for a change, your kid would love it for its colour.
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Beetroot pulao recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 30 mins    |  Cook time: 25 mins    |  Serves: 3

Ingredients

Basmati rice – 1 cup heaped

Beetroot, chopped – 1 cup

Green peas – 1/2 cup

Onion – 1

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Red chilli powder – 1 tsp

Coriander seeds powder – 1 tsp

Turmeric – 1/8 tsp

Coconut milk, thin – 1 cup

Coriander leaves, chopped – 2 tblsp

Salt – As needed

To temper

Oil / Ghee – 2 tsp

Bay leaf – 1

Cinnamon – 1 piece

Cardamom – 1

Clove – 1

Saunf (fennel seeds) – 1/2 tsp

Method

  1. Soak basmati rice for atleast 1/2 hour. Heat a small pressure cooker with oil/ ghee, temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order. Add thinly sliced onions and fry till transparent. 1-temper
  2. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute in medium flame. Add beetroot and green peas. Add little salt and continue frying for 2 mins in medium flame. 2-fry
  3. Add turmeric, chilli powder and dhaniya powder and give it a fry. Add thin coconut milk and a cup of water. Bring to boil, add required salt and soaked basmati rice. Mix well.3-cook 
  4. Cook for 14 minutes in lowest possible flame with lid and pressure valve. Or upto 2 whittles in medium flame. Garnish with coriander leaves.5-ready

Notes

    • You can garnish with fried cashews too.
    • You can skip green peas.
    • I didn’t had ginger garlic paste, so I pressed ginger and garlic in garlic press.

Serve hot with any raita, onion raita best or boondi raita and chips.

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  2. Hi..this pulao looks very good.Once I tried something of this kind and my whole rice turned into red color but yours looks just like a normal pulao.Do you have any special tip to retain it from not becoming reddish?

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  10. Nice looking pulao.. and so easily done with a pressure cooker! Looking at the pic I thought it might have been a very elaborate method!

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  26. Wow!! Looks super yummy. Your pulao dishes are my go to dishes, on the days I have very little time.

    I have one question though… No matter how I cook the pulao, low or medium flame, I always end up burning the bottom 🙁 If I add a little more water, the rice gets mushy 🙁 Do you have any tips? I have the stainless steel butterfly pressure cooker and I have a gas stove.

    Thanks 🙂

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  30. I find this Indolium pressure cooker perfect. Coz, it never gives a burnt bottom. May be try buying on small cooker in this metal.
    Try using little more oil, may be it will help.

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  40. Hi Raks Anand,
    I first came across your work when searching for some recipe and, from then on I usually check Rak’s kitchen before doing any web search. Thank you so much for making my cooking routine interesting and our everyday meal tastier. Beetroot Pulav looks mouthwatering!

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  52. hi raks anand,once really searching for receips in net and dat tym ly i got ur blog raks kitchen, n ur dishes r awesome actually iam newly married n iam trying new new receips by seeing ur blog n my hubby too loves it 🙂 and ur pictures are mouth watering and tempting n tastes r so good plese keep on posting new dishes…..

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