Plain Pulao Recipe: English – Urdu

Plain Pulao Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Mutton – 1 kg
2. Rice – 3 cups (soaked for 20min)
3. Ginger – 1 small piece
4. Garlic – 1 whole with skin
5. Salt – to taste
6. Dry coriander – 1 tbsp
7. Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
8. White cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
9. Big cardamom – 2
10. Bay leaves – 2
11. Onion – 2 whole

• Take a pan, add all above ingredients in a muslin cloth, except onion and garlic and make packet, then add 4 cups of water and cook until mutton is done and stock is ready.

For Bighar of Pulao

1. Onion – 4 thinly sliced
2. Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp
3. Green cardamoms – 6
4. Green chillies – 4
5. Black cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
6. Salt – to taste
7. White vinegar – 1 tbsp
8. Oil or ghee – 1 cup
9. Yogurt – 2 tbsp

Method:

• In another pan add oil and fry onion until golden brown.
• Then take it out half onion and sprinkle on a newspaper for turn into crispy.
• Remove mutton from the stock and strain stock.
• Now in remaining onion, add ginger garlic paste, yogurt, black cumin, green chilli and green cardamoms, fry a little bit and add mutton, fry for a few minutes, then add stock, when it starts boiling add soaked rice, salt and vinegar.
• Cover and let it cook.
• When water dries put on low heat for dum.
• Serve with yogurt raita and pickle.