Varagu Veg Pulao

Below recipe by Raks Anand

Ingredients

• 3 cup Varagu Kodo millet

• 3 & 1.5 cups Water

• 3 cup Mixed vegetables Chopped Carrot, beans, green peas

• 3 Onion

• 3 tsp Ginger garlic paste

• 6 Green chilli

• 36 Mint leaves

• Salt as needed

To temper

• 9 tbsp Ghee plus oil mixed

• 3 inch Cinnamon

• 3 tsp Fennel seeds soambu

• 3 Biryani leaf

Instructions

• Heat a small pressure cooker firstly with oil/ ghee.

• Then, in medium flame, add cinnamon, fennel, bay leaf. Do not let fennel change its colour.

• After that, add onion and give it a stir. Then, add ginger garlic paste.

• Fry furthermore for a minute in medium flame.

• Then add the chopped veggies, mint leaves.

• Continue frying in medium flame for about 2 mins. You can add a little salt for the veggies.

• After that, add washed, drained millet to it and mix well. Let it become dry. Flame should always in medium.

• Then add water, salt and bring to boil.

• Mix well and cook for a whistle in medium or low flame or in low flame possible for 12 mins. My stove has broad burner, allows me to put the flame to lowest, so I kept for 12 mins in cooker, no whistle.