Green Moong Pulao

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5 from 1 vote

Green Moong Pulao

Green Moong Pulao- a healthy one pot meal made with rice, moong bean sprouts and mix vegetables.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Course: Lunch box Recipe, lunch recipe, street food, Tiffin recipes

Cuisine: Indian Cuisine, North Indian Cuisine

Keyword: dal pulao, kidney friendly recipe, mag pulao, moong pulao, moong sprout recipe, mung pulao, one pot meal, pulao, renal friendly diet, sprout pulao, vegetable pulao

Servings: person

Calories: 713kcal

Author: Anjana Chaturvedi

Ingredients

1.5 cup Bean sprouts/moong sprouts boiled
2 cup Rice/chawal cooked
1/2 cup Bell Peppers / Capsicum / Shimla Mirch chopped
1/3 cup Green Peas / Hari Matar Boiled
2 big Tomatoes / Tamatar chopped, optional
1/3 cup Carrot / Gajar optional
1 tsp Ginger / Adrak grated
2 tbsp Butter, Unsalted / Makkhan optional
3 tbsp Cooking oil
4 tbsp Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya

spices

to taste Salt / Namak
2 tsp Kashmiri Chili powder
1/3 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
1 tsp Pav Bhaji Masala
1 tbsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras optional
1.5 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
3 Dried Red Chilli, Whole optional

Instructions

Boil the moong sprouts in the pressure cooker with a cup of water, pinch turmeric and salt for 1 whistle on medium heat.
Drain and keep aside.
Heat a heavy bottom pan and add oil and butter or use only oil or ghee.
Now add the cumin seeds ,whole dried red chili and asafoetida in it.
When cumin start to crackle then add tomato pulp and salt, cover and cook on low heat till tomato become soft and mushy and start releasing some oil.
Add the chopped capsicums ,carrots and frozen peas , mix and cover and cook till they become soft but remain crunchy.
IF available then use coloured capsicum in it.
Now add all the dry spices and the boiled mung and stir fry for a few minutes.
Add the cooked rice and mix, you can sprinkle 1 tbsp water if needed.
Add 1 tbsp ghee and saute the rice for a minute and then cover and simmer for 2-3 minutes so it will heat up nicely.
Now switch off the heat and add lemon juice and fresh coriander in it .
If making it for kidney patient then skip using tomato and lemon juice
Serve hot with raita, dahi or Gujarati kadhi.

Notes

NOTE-

You can add any vegetable of your choice like- cabbage, cauliflower, beans,corn, capsicum etc.
you can use both-long grain or short grain rice for making this pulao.

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