Ingredients:
- Sama rice: 1 cup
- Potato: 2 no. (Medium size)
- Peanut: 3 Tablespoon
- Ginger: 1” piece
- Green chili: 2 no.
- Cashew nut: 8-10 no.
- Coriander leaves: 2 tablespoon.
- White rock salt: 1 teaspoon
- Ghee: 2 tablespoon
- Sugar: half teaspoon (optional).
- Water: 2 cup
Preparation:
- Clean and wash rice. Keep aside in a sieve to get rid of extra water.
- Chop potato into small cube.
- Chop ginger and green chili into small pieces.
Method:
- Heat 2 tablespoon of ghee in cooker/fry pan.
- Fry cashew nut and groundnut for 3-5 minutes. Stir continuously till brown color comes, add green chili and ginger further fry for few seconds.
- Add potato and stir.
- Lower the flame and cover it (about 3-4 minutes).
- Add washed rice and fry for 3-5 minutes.
- The moment some of rice begins to change color.
- Add water, close cooker, put on high flame and bring to full cooking pressure.
- Put off the flame and allow it to cool, add lemon juice and coriander leaves. Stir well.
- You can use rice cooker instead of pressure cooker.
- Sama pulav is ready, transfer into serving bowl.
- This is eaten during fasting.
- It is highly nutritious and easily digestible.
- In some part of India, it is a part of staple diet.
Sama pulav (phalahari recipe) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.