Pomegranate Raita, Anar ka Raita ,How to make Pomegranate Raita

Pomegranate Raita is sweet, spicy and fruity raita prepared using fresh curd, pomegranate arils and some spices which adds good taste to the Raita. I love this pomegranate raita because of its sweet, spicy and and fruity taste and it easy to prepare. 

Do check this recipe in my youtube channel..

https://youtu.be/b7kuOSdKxxU

 Using fresh thick curd is preferred. Adding onion to the raita gives good crunchy taste to it. If you are planning to prepare this Raita on vrats then skip adding onions. Adding cucumber to the raita gives good refreshing taste to it. Coming to spices we add roasted cumin seeds powder and pepper powder along with little red chilli powder and finely grated green chilli which adds spicy to the Raita. 

 

                                            

        I regularly prepare this Raita as accompaniment to veg pulao's, pulkas. Recently I prepared this pomegranate raita for peas pulao. Many of my friends requested to post this Raita recipe, here I am posting 😍. 

           Pomegranate Raita 

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 0 minutes
Serves : 1 big cup
Category : Raita
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Pomegranate,
                                     Curd

Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

(adjust spices accordingly)

Curd - 1 cup

Pomegranate arils(seeds) - 1/2 cup

Onion - 1(finely chopped)

Cucumber - 1/2(finely chopped)

Green chilli - 1(finely chopped)

Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Roasted cumin powder - 1/2 tsp

Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp

Salt as per taste

Coriander leaves - 2 tsp(finely chopped)

Instructions

1) At first finely chop onions, cucumber green chilli, coriander leaves and remove pomegranate arils and keep it ready. 

2) Take thick yogurt into bowl and Whisk it well without any lumps. 

3) Add red chilli powder, salt, pepper and cumin powder to the whisked curd and mix everything well. 

4)  Add finely chopped veggies, pomegranate arils and mix it well. (Keep some chopped veggies aside for garnishing)

5) Take 2 tsp of pomegranate arils in a cup, mash it well till you get juice. Then add its juice in curd and mix well.

6)Mix everything well, If you want you can keep it in refrigerator for chilling. 

Healthy, tasty and fruity pomegranate raita is ready garnish it with remaining veggies and serve 😋😋. 
Here i am sharing pomegranate raita pic which i prepared for peas pulao :) 

Note

◆ If you are preparing this Raita for vrats skip adding onions. 

◆ Add spices according to your taste. 

Tips

● If you are planning this Raita for any parties then have to cool for good taste. 

● Use fresh and thick curd for good texture and taste. 

●  You can also use canned pomegranate to prepare this raita but it is preferred to use fresh pomegranate arils. 

● Chop onion, cucumber, green chilli and coriander leaves finely. 

Also Check few pulao/biryani and sweet recipes by clicking the link below the pic. 

                      Peas Pulao

Kashmiri pulao

                       Coconut milk pulao

Dates & dry fruits burfi

        Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

          Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

  Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

                        Kaju Katli

Sooji Kakara Pitha

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Peas Pulao || Matar Pulao || Green Peas Pulao || How to prepare Peas Pulao

Peas Pulao is one pot, flavourful rice prepared using fresh peas or frozen peas. Green Peas in English is also known as pachabattani in telugu,battani in Kannada, pattani in Tamil and matar in Hindi. We can prepare this pulao quickly as because no need of  chopping veggies. For  this pulao we use onions which are fried in ghee along with spices. You can serve this peas pulao with any yogurt raita's, veg kurma or panner curries like  paneer butter masala, Kadai Paneer , khova paneer or  Kaju Curry   as accompaniment. I had this peas pulao with Pomegranate raita

I prepared this pulao in Kadai, we can also prepare it in pressure cooker or electronic cooker. Generally we use long grain basmathi rice to prepare this pulao. We can also use normal rice too. But to get good flavored and tasty pulao we use basmathi rice.  The thing to remember is the portion of water you used to prepare any pulao. We can prepare matar pulao in many variations like aloo matar pulao, Paneer,matar pulao, pudina matar pulao etc, I prepared simple and basic matar pulao. 

                          Peas Pulao

Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 3 persons
Category : Pulao/Biryani
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Green Peas

Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

Basmathi rice - 11/2 glass

Water - 2 1/2 glass

Fresh green peas - 1 cup

Onion - 2 (roughly chopped)

Green chilli - 2 (slit in middle)

Cashew nuts - 10

Ghee - 4 tsp

Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tsp(I dint added)
sat as per taste

Spices

Cumin seeds/jeera - 1 tsp

Elachi/green cardamom  - 4

Star anise - 2

Cloves/laung - 4

Cinnamon stick - 2 inches

Bay leaf - 2

Instructions to prepare Peas pulao

1) Clean basmathi rice 2 times in water and soak it for 20- 30 minutes. Chop onion roughly, slit green chillies and keep spices ready. 

2) Take a pan add 4 tsp of ghee add cashew nuts and fry. 

3) Fry the cashew nuts till it changes color, take it into cup. 

4) In the same pan add cumin seeds  let it fry for a second then add remaining spices. Fry till you get nice aroma on low flame. 

5) Add Green chillies to the above fry it well. 

6) Add roughly chopped onion with 1/4 tsp of salt. 

7) Fry onions till it changes to golden olor. 

8) Now add peeled and washed peas to the above spices. 

9) Mix everything well, saute well for 4-5 minutes on low flame. 

10) Drain water from basmathi rice completely and add it to the above. 

11) saute rice gently. 

12)  Add 2 1/2 glass water into rice  and salt mix it once gently. (already we added salt while frying onion add salt accordingly). 

13) Keep the flames high for a minute or till bubbles gets start. 

14) Now keep the flames low, close the lid and keep some weight on the plate and cook it. 

15) Cook the rice till it become fluff or cook the rice for 2 whistles if you are cooking in pressure cooker. Switch off the flames and rest it for 5 - 10 minutes. At last add fried cashew nuts.

 Yummy, tasty Green Peas Pulao is ready😋😋. 

 Serve it with raita or any paneer curries or dals or any veg kurma. 

Note

◆You can also add pudina leaves, garam masala powder to get extra taste. 

◆ If you are adding ginger garlic paste, add it after frying onions. 

◆ You can also use sona masuri rice instead of basmathi rice. 

Tips

● Soak basmathi rice minimum 20 to 30 minutes. 

●  If you are preparing pulao in pressure cooker, cook for 2 whistles and leave it  till the pressure leaves. Do not open it forcely. 

Also check few curries, biryani and other recipes by clicking the link below the pic.. 

                              Kaju curry

               paneer butter masala

                          Kadai Paneer

                      khova paneer 

Kashmiri pulao

                       Coconut milk pulao

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Potato Spring Onion fry, Aloo hare pyaz ki sabzi, Aloo vulli kaada fry, How to prepare Aloo Spring Onion fry

Spring onion is also known as Scallion and vulli kaadalu in telugu.Spring onions are low in calories, fat-free and provides fibre. Potato and spring onion fry is very good combination. Aloo spring onion fry is very tasty and kids friendly fry recipe prepared using potatoes and spring onion whites and greens. It is very easy to prepare in jiffy with less ingredients. As this is dry fry it goes well as sides dish with dal, sambar, rasam and curd rice. It also goes well with Roti's and pulkas too. Today we had this aloo spring onion fry with tomato rasam. My dad use to bring this spring onions regularly 😊. While buying spring onions for cabbage manchurian recipes, I bought 1 extra bunch and thought to prepare this fry. Spring onion green gives crunchy taste to the fry. Point to remember is use tender spring onion(greens)

   

  I confused with scallions and spring onions so digged to know the difference between scallions and spring onions. 

Scallions - are long, with a white stem end that does not buldge out.

Spring onion - look smillar to scallion, but they have samll onion bulb at the base.

     I gathered this information and pics from google. Thought that it will useful...


              Aloo Spring Onion fry

Preparation Time : 10 minutes

Cook Time : 15 minutes

Serves : 3-4 people

Category : Fry

Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Main ingredients : Potato, Spring

                                          Onion

Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients 

Potato - 3

Spring onion- 1 bunch(greens)

Spring onion whites - 1 cup(shallots)

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Green chilli - 1

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Hing - 1 tsp

Salt as needed

Oil - 2 tsp
Chopped garlic - 1 tsp ( I did not added)

Instructions

1) Clean spring onions, Cut whites and greens. Later wash potatoes, peel the skin and cut it  and soak into water. 

2) Take a pan add oil, let it heat for a second add cumin sedds, once cumin seeds turns brown add chopped green chillies  hing and saute it for a second. 

3)  Add  chopped onions saute till it becomes translucent. 

4) Now add chopped potatoes and salt mix well and let it fry for a second. 

5) Then add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder to the above. 

6) Mix the spices and potatoes well so that potatoes coat well with spices. Close the lid and cook it on medium - low flames.

7) Stir potato occasionally while cooking as there is chance of sticking aloo to the pan so check it in middle of frying. Chop green part of onion. 

8) Once aloo almost cooked, add green part of spring onions. (scallion)

9) Mix the above well, so that the spices coat spring onion greens. 

10) Fry the above on high flames for 2 minutes and cook it  3 to 5 minutes by closing the lid for cruchy greens. Tasty aloo spring onion fry is ready, take it into serving plate. 

 We had this aloo spring onion fry with tomato rasam 😋😋. 

Note

◆ You can add chopped garlic after adding cumin seeds. 

◆ You can also add spices after cooking potatoes. But adding spices early will coat potatoes well and gives good taste but it stick to pan, so fry potatoes occassionally.

Tips

 . Soak potatoes in water after cutting so that potatoes d't change color.

● If you want spring onion greens crunchy do not cook it long time after adding green parts of spring onion.

● Use only tender part of spring onions greens(Scallion). 

Also check few fries/ curries from my blog by clicking the link below the pic

Tiny bitter gourd fry

Stuffed Bhindi

            Stuffed Bitter gourd

                          Kurkuri Bhindi

             Carrot beans stir fry

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