Tomato Vegetable Pulav
Sindhi Recipe - Sindhi Food - Sindhi Vegetable Pulav
Tomato Pulav or more correctly vegetable Pulav because along with Tomato many other vegetables are also used, is can’t be considered as typical Sindhi food but surely result of modernisation of Sindhi Kitchen which has adopted and altered a typical Sindhi recipe to present a new mouth-watering rice recipe for the food loving sindhi families.
Use of Old Tradition
This was old tradition of Sindhi kitchen that left over rice of dinner were used for breakfast by frying a bit them with green coriander leaves, turmeric and chilly powder.
If we look at Vegetable Pulav this is actually alteration of this process. The only major difference is here rice are cooked specially for making this sindhi recipe.
Seasonal & Wedding Sindhi Cuisine
Tomato Pulav or Vegetable Pulav which is served as main course dish- In many Sindhi families Vegetable Pulav is eaten only with fry or roasted Papad.
During the summer when mangos are available in abundance Tomato Pulav or Vegetable Pulav is often cooked for regular dinner to be served with mango. Even in functions like wedding reception Vegetable Pulav finds place in menu as this sindhi recipe can be eaten alone also.
Sindhi Rice Recipe - Vegetable Pulav - Ingredients
400 gms boiled rice
300 gms Mix Vegetables
2 tbs oil
1 tbs paste of Ginger and Garlic paste
1 cup each of finely chopped onion and Tomato
40 gms chopped Shimla Mirch
2 small spoon Catchup
small quantity of Turmeric, Red Chili Powder, Pav Bhaji Masala and Salt to taste.
Water as per requirement.
Chopped Green Coriander leaves for Garnishing.
Sindhi Rice Recipe - Vegetable Pulav - Cooking Process
Take oil in cooking utensil and heat add Ginger Garlic paste and mix it.
Add Onions heat till it become slight brown.
Add Tomato and heat till it gets soft.
Add Ketchup, chilly powder, turmeric powder etc and Shimla Mirch heat for a while say about 7 minutes.
Add water and cook. Add chopped Mixed Vegetables and mix it.
Finally add boiled rice to it and cook for 5 minutes.
Garnish with Green leaves of Coriander and serve.