This is not Veg Biryani or Veg Pulao. This is Punjabi Ishtyle Soup Wale Chawal[/caption]
- Make a vegetable soup in Punjabi Shorba style with garlic, a hint of ginger, salt, pepper, oil, red chilli (seedless), onion, assorted vegetables.
- It should be spicier and saltier than what you can have, as the rice and vegetables would absorb all that.
- Once the soup is done, we need to cook the rice and vegetables together in it.
- Leave the vegetable pieces as big as you wish and add at least 6 different veggies. In this preparation we have used: Carrot; Potatoes; Fresh Peas; Onion; Mushrooms; Cauliflower, French Beans and Soya Nuggets.
- If you like even a more colorful bowl of rice,you may add semi-cooked chickpeas and corn kernels along with other vegetables.
- Usually keeping the quantity of veggies as twice the weight of raw rice being cooked works well.
- You may sprinkle fresh coriander leaves to garnish alongside some ginger strips.
- Keeping it everything but not pat dry works very well and you practically don't need anything else to go with it. A side of raita or achaar, if you insist, can be kept alongside to give a sense of completeness.
