How to Make Perfect Tehari or single pot vegetable rice recipe

Tehari or single pot vegetable rice recipe.

You can have Tehari or single pot vegetable rice recipe using 18 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tehari or single pot vegetable rice recipe

1. Prepare 2 cups of basmati rice (soaked for 20 Mins).
2. It's 2 cups of diced Vegetables of your choice-potaotes, carrots, cauliflower florets, string beans, peas, spinach.
3. You need 2 of garam masala.
4. Prepare 2 of cinnamon sticks.
5. You need 4 of cardamon pods.
6. You need 4 of cloves.
7. You need 6 of pepper corns.
8. You need 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds.
9. It's 2 of dried red chilli (optional).
10. You need 1 of onion sliced.
11. You need 2 of diced tomatoes.
12. You need 2 tablespoon of ginger garlic paste.
13. It's 1 teaspoon of each of turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder.
14. It's 2tabelspoon of garam masala powder or biryani masala powder.
15. It's 1 cup of beaten unsweetened, plain yoghurt.
16. You need 1 cup of boiled mealmaker.
17. Prepare 4 of slitted green chillies.
18. Prepare of Ghee or clarified butter.

Tehari or single pot vegetable rice recipe step by step

1. Boil the mealmaker with salt and 1/2 teaspoon of ginger garlic paste and a cinnamon stick.
2. Squeeze the excess water out of the mealmaker chunks once they are boiled.
3. Drain and spread the rice evenly on a flat pan so that it's dried well.
4. Marinate the soaked and dried rice for half hour with the spice powders and salt.
5. Heat some white oil in a pan..
6. Shallow fry all the veggies with salt for 10 mins and keep then aside.
7. Now in the same pot, add some more oil if needed.
8. Break and add the dried red chillies, cumin seeds and the whole garam masala.
9. Once they start to crackle, add the sliced onions.
10. Fry then until they r translucent..
11. Add the diced tomatoes and the ginger-garlic paste.
12. Saute for 5 mins or til lthe oilstarts separating out.
13. Add the mealmaker chunks and fried veggies and coat the masala well.
14. Cook for 5 mins. Sprinkle some water if needed.
15. Add the marinated rice and fry it well with the contents of the pot until the rice becomes fragrant.
16. Add the green chillies.
17. Add 4 cups of water (measured in the same cup as rice) and cover it. Let it cook..
18. When the rice is 70% done, add beaten yoghurt. Mix well taking care that the grains don't break.
19. Close the lid and let it to cook till the rice is cooked perfectly..
20. Once the rice and the veggies are cooked, add the garam masala powder and ghee from the top and mix carefully.
21. Serve hot.