Cholia Pulao Recipe or Green Chana Pulao - Green Garbanzo Rice
This cholia pulao recipe has a fresh spring-like, earthy taste of green chickpeas, making the dish a perfect, one-pot meal for hot days. Here is the hara choliya pulao recipe with seasonal green chickpeas.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 1 cup Green chana
- 1 No Carrot chopped in small chunks
- 2 - 3 tbsp Green coriander finely chopped
- 3 - 4 tbsp Oil
- 1 No Lemon
- 2 No Green chilly chopped lengthwise
- 1 inch Ginger sliced thinly and lengthwise
- 2 No Black cardamom
- 1 inch Cinnamon stick
- 3 - 4 No Clove
- 8 - 10 No Black pepper
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1.5 tsp Salt as per taste
Instructions
- Wash rice thoroughly and soak in water for 1/2 hour.
- Heat some oil in a pan.
- Place green chana and carrots in a pan and stir nicely.
- Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes on low flame until they get crispy.
- Remove to a separate bowl.
- Add cumin seeds in leftover oil.
- After sauteing cumin seeds, add brown cardamom, cinnamon stick(chopped in small pieces), black pepper and cloves.
- Saute for few minutes and add green chilly, ginger.
- Again saute for few minutes and add soaked rice, salt.
- Stir and roast for 2 minutes so that rice are nicely coated with spices.
- Add 2 cups of water and mix well.
- Cover and cook pulao for 5 minutes on low flame.
- Open the lid and add roasted green chana, carrots, lemon juice and chopped green coriander.
- Mix all ingredients really well.
- Cover the rice again and cook on low flame.
- Check rice after every 5 minutes and stir really well. It takes 15 minutes to cook rice.
- After 10-15 minutes, choliya rice pulao will be ready.
- Serve steaming hot green chana pulao with curd, chutney, dal or sabzi and relish eating.
Notes
- Add vegetables and cholia to make cholia pulao recipe more nutritious.
- Choliya pulao recipe tastes excellent when served hot along with raita and chutney.