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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

 

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Okra pulao recipe

Flavourful pulao using lady's finger | okra | vendakkai
Course Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine Indian
Keyword lunch box recipes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 1
Author Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

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

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Notes

1. You can use raw rice or par boiled rice instead of basmati rice.
2. You can pack this Vendakkai puloa | okra pulao | bhendi rice for lunch box
  • 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.
okra pulao
  • 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.
Okra pulao recipe
  • Now add a few cashew nuts and cook till it turns slightly golden brown.
vendakkai pulao
  • Now add ½ tomato, mix well and cook for a minute.
Okra pulao
  • 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.
pkra pulao recipe
  • Once the vendakkai is cooked, add the cooked rice to this.
okra pulao
  • Gently mix well evenly.
vendakkai pulao
  • Garnish with coriander leaves.
  • Okra pulao | Vendakkai pulao is ready.
okra pulao

  • 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.
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