Instant Pot Series - Vegetables Pulao - Kids Pulao recipe

Summer vacation already started for kids. Happy thing is no more online school, but the worst part is we have to engage them for next 2.5 months 😨 vacation with lockdown. By evenings I take kid to park and do activities like biking, kiting, water guns, etc. On this busy time I tried to reduce my cook time, in that way I love my Instant Pot.

Today's recipe also one pot meal and its definitely family favourite, because lot of veggies we used and its easy to feed kids veggies like this. It just needs raita to finish off the bowl. Only chopping the veggies is time consuming and I do that on grocery shopping day itself, clean and cut the veggies and store in refrigerator 🙂.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

Ingredients

Basmati Rice – cup
Onion – 1
Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp
Green chili - 2 slitted
Vegetables of your choice – 1 cup
Cardamom -2
Cinnamon stick - 1 inch
Bay leaf - 2
Salt as per taste
Coconut Oil - 2 tbsp
Water - 1.5 cups
A handful of coriander leaves
Ghee – 1 tsp

Method

Rinse and soak rice in water for 30 mins. Turn on SAUTE mode and add the coconut oil in Instant pot. Add bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon stick and fry for 2 mins.
Add onion and saute it for 1 min. Add green chili and veggies, saute for 2 mins.
Add water, soaked rice, salt and ghee. Taste check here, should be more salted.
Hit CANCEL. Close the lid on the pot and turn valve from VENTING to SEALING position.
Set the pot to PRESSURE COOK/MANUAL (High pressure) and set timer to 5 minutes.
Do a natural pressure release, that is wait until silver button on lid drops. BE CAREFUL OF HOT STEAM.
Hit CANCEL. Open the lid, add coriander leaves and ready to serve with any gravy, for kids serve with raita.