I'm not sure what to call this dish..

..I made it this weekend for the Nooster. During the week, she gets to eat stuff that my mom makes for her so over the weekends, I like to try my hand at making something fresh and healthy and ofcourse edible for her. This weekend, I tried this kichdi-cum-chicken pulao and Noo loved it. God, I was on cloud 9 for most of the day. No acheivement's felt better than this one.
Enough babble, on to the recipe.

Ingredients
1 tsp orange lentils (masoor)
1 tsp yellow lentils (tuvar)
2-3 tbsp rice
Ginger and garlic paste
Onion paste
Tomato puree
Salt to taste
Chicken stock
Left-over chicken

Method
Add a quarter of a chicken stock cube to half a glass of hot water and keep aside.
Heat a one tsp of oil, butter or ghee. Add a quarter tsp of onion paste and a quarter tsp of ginger-and-garlic paste and about a tsp of puree. When the mixture's started to brown, add the lentils. Add salt to taste. Add rice and stir well. Add the chicken-stock-water and cover and cook.

If you're going to add already cooked chicken, mash a cube with your hands, and add just as the last bit of water in the rice is drying up.

I served this with yogurt and Noo obsolutely loved it.

Maybe next week, I'm going to add potatoes and either a spoonful of zucchini or spinach to add to the flavor and fool Noo's tastebuds into thinking that this is a new dish.

Sprouts Pulav

Before you read further, let me tell you thats its just a normal vegetable pulav with sprouts :-)



Rice - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 cup
Moong sprouts - 1 tbsp
corn kernals - 1 tbsp
Green peas - Handful
Grated Carrots - 1 tbsp
Onion - 1 small , finely chopped
Tomato - 1/2 small , finely chopped
Cauliflower - 1 floret , finely chopped
Beans - 1,finely chopped
Oil/Ghee - 1 tsp ( I use Ghee)
Salt - to taste
Coriander power - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala - 1/4 tsp


1. Heat the ghee in a pressure cooker
2. Saute onions for 2-3 seconds
3. Add all the veggies, corn and sprouts and saute for few seconds
4. Add salt , coriander powder and garam masala
5. Add water and rice and pressure cook for 2 whistles



This is usually the monday lunch for Aryan , since my fridge is full of vegetables on mondays.The ingredients vary with availability :-)

**Sorry about the picture quality , you know it was monday morning ;-) **