Recipe: Perfect Basanti Pulao

Basanti Pulao.

You can have Basanti Pulao using 13 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Basanti Pulao

1. Prepare 1 cup of Govindabhog/ambamohar rice.
2. You need 2 cups of water.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of ginger paste.
4. It's 2 tbsp of ghee.
5. Prepare 2-3 of green cardamoms.
6. You need 4-5 of cloves/laung.
7. You need 1" of cinnamon.
8. Prepare 5-6 of roasted cashewnuts.
9. It's 1 tbsp of raisins.
10. You need of Few strands saffron.
11. You need 1/4 th cup of milk.
12. Prepare 2 tbsp of sugar.
13. It's 1/4 of th tsp salt.

Basanti Pulao instructions

1. Heat ghee in a pressure cooker and add half crushed garam masala.When they splutter add the washed and dried rice.Add sugar and salt and 1 bay leaf.Add 2 cups water and saffron soaked milk.Add ginger paste and little turmeric.Pressure cook 2 whistles and open after 5 minutes.Garnish with roasted broken cashewnuts and raisins and toss lightly after 5 minutes..
2. The rice used may be substituted with Basmati rice and made in a non stick wok in low flame.