Recipe: Delicious Basanti Pulao

Basanti Pulao.

You can have Basanti Pulao using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Basanti Pulao

1. You need 2 cups of gobindobhog rice.
2. Prepare 5 table spoon of clarified butter.
3. Prepare 5 table spoon of sugar.
4. It's 1 tea spoon of salt.
5. Prepare 1 tea spoon of turmeric powder.
6. Prepare 1/2 tea spoon of ginger paste.
7. Prepare 3/4 of bay leaves.
8. You need 4/5 pieces of cinnamon.
9. It's 5/6 of green cardamon.
10. You need 2/3 of green chilies.
11. You need 4 cups of water (double the quantity of rice).

Basanti Pulao step by step

1. Wash and soak rice in water for half an hour and wash and soak cashew nuts for some time.
2. Remove the water from the rice and put it in a sieve till all the water is dried up.
3. Add turmeric powder, clarified butter and ginger paste to the dried rice and mix it thoroughly with light hands and keep it for 1 hour.
4. In a pan add clarified butter and put the nuts and fry it till golden brown and remove it, add bay leaves, green cardamoms and cinnamon and fry till you get nice aroma.
5. Add the marinated rice to it and fry till it becomes light and starts splattering add boiled water and sugar and salt to it.
6. Cook it on high flame uncovered till the water comes to the rice level and put the green chilies to it and cover it with lid and cook till it is done..
7. It's ready to serve.