Okra pulao recipe| Vendakkai pulao – Easy to make pulao recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures.
School holidays are over and packing lunch with interesting lunch items is challenging for all mothers. And if you have 2 kids, it is even more complicated !! This bhendi rice | okra pulao is an interesting lunch box recipe I recently learned from my friend who visited here last month. I made little changes to the recipe to suit my kid’s taste, and the bhindi pulao is a super-hit recipe. As most kids love bhendi|Okra| vendakkai , this bhindi rice recipe will surely be a super hit lunch box recipe.
You can replace okra with boiled and cooked potatoes or add frozen green peas. If you have leftover rice you can make this quickly for a weeknight dinner too. If you are making a weekend lunch, you can make a dal fry and a dry sabzi like gajar matar or beans aloo stir fry, a raita and make a complete meal.
Also check out our interesting lunch box recipes, carrot rice, Beetroot pulao , cabbage rice, cauliflower masala rice
- Wash and soak ½ cup of basmati rice in ¾ cup of water for 20 mins.
- Cook ½ cup of basmati rice in ¾ cup of water in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles.
- Once it is done spread on a plate and cool.
- In a pan add 1 tbsp of oil and add add 1 thinly sliced onions.
- Add a little salt and saute this till translucent.
- Add 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste at this stage.
- Cook till the raw smell goes off.
- Now add a few cashew nuts and cook till it turns slightly golden brown.
- Now add ½ tomato, mix well and cook for a minute.
- Add 1-2 tsp sambar powder, ½ tsp turmeric powder and salt.
- You can add an equal quantity of red chili powder and coriander powder instead of sambar powder.
- Add chopped lady’s finger and cook on medium flame.
- Once the vendakkai is cooked, add the cooked rice to this.
- Gently mix well evenly.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Okra pulao | Vendakkai pulao is ready.
- You can use raw rice or par boiled rice instead of basmati rice.
- You can pack this Vendakkai puloa | okra pulao | bhendi rice for lunch box.
Okra pulao recipe
Ingredients
- 8 vendakkai | ladies finger | okra
- ½ cup Basmati rice un cooked
- 1 onion
- ½ tomato
- 2 tsp sambar powder
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1 tbsp oil
- Few cashew nuts optional
- Salt as needed
- Coriander leaves to garnish
Instructions
- Wash and soak ½ cup of basmati rice in ¾ cup of water for 20 mins.
- Cook ½ cup of basmati rice in ¾ cup of water in pressure cooker for 3 whistles.
- Once it is done spread in a plate and cool.
- In a pan add 1 tbsp of oil and add add 1 thinly sliced onions.
- Add little salt and saute this till translucent.
- Add 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste at this stage.
- Cook till raw smell goes off
- Now add few cashew nuts and cook till it turns slight golden brown
- Now add ½ tomato, mix well and cook for a minute.
- Add 1-2 tsp sambar powder, ½ tsp turmeric powder and salt.
- You can add equal quantity of red chili powder and coriander powder instead of sambar powder.
- Add chopped lady’s finger and cook on medium flame
- Once the vendakkai is cooked, add the cooked rice to this.
- Gently mix well evenly.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Okra pulao | Vendakkai pulao is ready
