Tawa pulav is boiled rice tossed with fresh vegetables and spicy red chilli paste and masalas. Popular street food in india. I had tasted it in one of the restaurants in pune. We had loved it. So i decided to give it a try on day. So made it some days before refering to 2-3 recipes from net. Result was indeed good. I njoyed tossing it on tava the max...:-))
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cup basmati rice
1 tomato chopped
2 cups mixed chopped vegetables(capsicum,carrot,cauliflower)
1/4 cup green peas(mutter)
2 onions chopped
1 tea spoon jeera
3 tea spoon chilli powder
3 table spoon pav bhaji masala
2 table spoon ginger-garlic paste
1 tea spoon cumin seeds
salt
3 table spoon coriander leaves chopped
1 table spoon limon juice
4-5 cloves
5-6 peppercorns
2" cinnamon
2 bay leaves
ghee
METHOD:
Wash the rice and drain water completely.Keep aside for 10 mins. Now take a pan and ghee. Add the rice in it and fry for 3-4 mins. Now add 3 cups of water. Add salt. Let it cook.
When the rice is done , spread it ona plate to cool and add little butter on it so that all grains seperate from each other.
Take green peas and cauliflower pieces ina bowl and add hot water to it and salt. They will become bit soft.
Heat a big tave.Add ghee. Add cumin seeds and saute till well browned.Add the onion and saute till lightly browned. Add ginger - garlic paste and tomatoes and saute till tomatoes become soft.
Now add all the vegetables and mix.Add pav bhaji masala, red chilli powder , salt and a little water. Mix and cook for two to three minutes. Stir nicely and countinously.
Now keep the veges aside of tava and add little ghee and add all the whole masalas and fry for 10-15 secs.Then mix it with tave bhaji. This are added later to avoid extra overwhelming taste which we would get if we add them before with cumin.
Now add little more ghee and add rice to it and mix it with the tawa bhaji. Add first only half quantity of rice, when its properly mixed add the rest ans keep on stiring countinously.
Add lemon juice and coriander leaves.Now toss the pulav with high flame for 2-3 mins.Remove from flame .
Serve hot plain or with raita.
Serves:3-4
Preparation time: 25 mins
Wow all mouthwatering dishes of mumbai..I recently made tava pulav, yet to be posted..I can totally understand how flavourful it can be...