Patauri pulao (fried rice with stuffed banana leaf envelopes)

Somali Paul
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Kolkata, India

A typical Bengali Delicacy

Patauri pulao (fried rice with stuffed banana leaf envelopes)

A typical Bengali Delicacy

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Ingredients

  1. 1lg fine grain rice
  2. 100 gmsghee
  3. Piecescardamom,cinnamon, cloves and a few bay loaves
  4. 1 pinchsaffron colour
  5. halfcoconut shredded and grounded to paste
  6. For Patauri:
  7. sugar,salt and turmic powder as per use
  8. 1 cupmustard oil
  9. 200 gmspaneer
  10. 25 gmseach of mustard and poppyseed paste
  11. leavesfresh banana

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Wash the rice,drain water and allow it to dry.Set aside mixing it with saffron colour.

  2. 2

    Cut the paneer into cubical pieces and deep frt in oil till them becomes a bit brown around the borders. Set aside.

  3. 3

    Cut the banana leaves into small rectangular pieces. Brush a bit of mustard oil in the inner part of each.

  4. 4

    Make a mixture of coconut,poppyseed and mustard paste adding into it salt sugar turmeric powder and three teaspoon s of mustard oil.

  5. 5

    Now put the paneer cubes into the mixture paste.Spread out a piece of banaba leaf,put a paneer cube inside it with some of the mixture paste.Fold the leaf into the shape of an envelope and tie it up with a thread.

  6. 6

    Repeat the same with the remaining banana leaves, paneer cubes and mixture paste.Apply a bit of mustard oil from top.

  7. 7

    Now either steam cook or micro cook the leaf envelopes till they become tender.Set aside.

  8. 8

    Take a deep based frying pan.Put the ghee and heat up till smelling.Add pieces of cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves Pur the rice and stir fry till the rice becomes dry enough.Now put water from the top.Be sure that the rice remains below a finger tip of water below.

  9. 9

    Pressure cook the rice till it gets your desired texture. Adf salt sugar and dip the leaf envelope (patauris) in the cooked rice.Remove from the flame and press the lid tight of the cooker fir 10 minutes. Serve hot.

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