Chirer Pulao (Bengali style poha or flattened rice)

Name: Chirer Pulao (Bengali style poha or flattened rice)
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: Serves 3 servin
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups thick variety poha; 2 tbsp nuts; 1 tbsp raisins; 1 tbsp chopped coconut; 1 tbsp small cubed carrots; 1 small potato; 2 tbsp chopped cauliflower; 1 tbsp chopped beans; 1 tbsp peas; 1 big onion chopped; 1 tsp chopped ginger; 1 tbsp sugar; To taste salt; 2 green cardamoms half crushed; 2 bay leaves; 1/2 tsp jeera (cumin)seeds; 1 tbsp ghee; 2 tbsp refined oil; 1/2 tsp garam masala powder; 1 tbsp chopped coriander; 2-3 broken green chillies

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

Poha is a healthy breakfast recipe of India but vary in taste in different states of India.This is an authentic bengali recipe which is prepared with the addition of variety of vegetables , nuts and raisins.It can also be packed as tiffin or lunch or simply as tea time snack with a cup of fuming hot tea.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Ingredients

20 minutes

Serves 3 servin

2 cupsthick variety poha
2 tbspnuts
1 tbspraisins
1 tbspchopped coconut
1 tbspsmall cubed carrots
1small potato
2 tbspchopped cauliflower
1 tbspchopped beans
1 tbsppeas
1big onion chopped
1 tspchopped ginger
1 tbspsugar
To tastesalt
2green cardamoms half crushed
2bay leaves
1/2 tspjeera (cumin)seeds
1 tbspghee
2 tbsprefined oil
1/2 tspgaram masala powder
1 tbspchopped coriander
2-3broken green chillies

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Steps

20 minutes

1

Wash poha. Discard water if any.Smear little salt and sugar and set aside.
2

Heat oil and fry the vegetables separately in low flame till soft.Sprinkle jeera and when they splutter,add chopped ginger and 2 crushed cardamoms..Fry lightly then add chopped onion.
3

Fry and add green peas and other fried vegetables.Toss and add the poha.Now add salt and sugar to taste.Also add chopped coconut,raisins and fried nuts.Add few bay leaves and broken green chillies.Sprinkle garam masala powder and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.