Paneer-Methi pulav

It has been a long time since I blogged a recipe. To tell you the truth it has been a long time since I have prepared a proper meal. I have been preparing salads mostly. Anyways today I managed to come out of office after nearly 10 hours of toil and pushed myself to make something special for Krishna and I remembered this recipe which my mother used to prepare when I was a kid(she got this recipe from Femina ). I decided to wing it even though I only had a vague recollection of the actual method. So here is how I made it.

Ingredients

* Basmati rice - 2 cups
* Fenugreek leaves - 2 cups
* Green chillies - Optional
* Onion - 1 medium sized
* Paneer cubes - 1/2 cup
* Salt - acc to taste
* Cinnamon - 1/2 stick
* Cloves - a few
* Cardamom - 2
* Bay leaves - few
* Turmeric powder - optional
* Oil - 1/2 tsp

Lightly fry the paneer cubes before hand and keep them aside. Cut the onion lengthwise into small pieces and slit the green chillies lengthwise. Heat oil in a pan. Add cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, bay leaves to the pan. Add onions, green chillies, turmeric powder and fry them a little. Add fenugreek leaves to the pan and let them cook a little bit. Wash the rice and add enough water for the rice to cook(I usually follow 1:3/2 ratio for rice:water), add the above cooked fenugreek leaves mixture and paneer cubes to rice and let it cook thoroughly. End result tasted almost the same as my mother's, mission accomplished :-)).

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