Gothumai Rawai Veg Pulav:

Cracked Wheat Pilaf.

Cracked Wheat Vegetable Pulav. Samba Rawai vegetable Biriyani. Cream of Wheat n Veggies Pilaf.

When people are in diet…they often ruin it on just 1 plate of biriyani or fried food! That’s it….they will give up everything and go on binging….which ever they craved for! I don’t understand the point. There is better way to do it! Taste and have fun with your cheesy/fatty/sweety treat. You don’t have to be fasting or neither feasting!!!! Just grab a bite….feel content! Anyway…..its not bad to taste different food….one should construct the feeling of content! Taste a different cuisine….if you like it…taste it….do not indulge in over eating. And also….if you do so, don’t feel guilty, just come back on your track!

Okay I can’t say ‘cream of wheat’ has no calories at all! And it is also another form of carbohydrate! But….the key of making this pulav is….its better when it comes to filling a hungry tummy. While rice takes lot of time to fill one….by the time, one would have crossed his limit! Wheat gives the satisfaction quickly. So they eat less! (maybe it induces the enzyme called leptin…which gives satiety feeling…research is going on this enzyme…to prepare artificially!Anyway…I feel our will power is more than enzyme after all)

Anyway…while preparing a diet menu, cut your butter/ghee and use safflower oil or something. Use more veggies than usual. Buy unpolished wheat/cream of wheat! Use more herbs…to bring up the flavour!

Ingredients:

Cinnamon sticks 1
Cloves 2
Cardamom pods 3
Bay leaves 1
Biryani flower 1
Marathi mokku 1
Safflower oil 1/4 cup
Green chillies 4 slitted
One large onion finely chopped
2 ripe tomato finely chopped
Mint one cup
Lemon juice 2-4 spoon
Ginger-garlic paste 1-2 spoons
Coriander leaves 4-6 twigs
Curd half cup
Cream of wheat 2 cups
Vegetables – diced 3 cups(carrots, beans, double beans, peas, cauliflower, potato)
Salt to taste
Red chili powder 1-2 spoons(optional)

Method:

1. Add one spoon of ginger-garlic paste with vegetables. Followed by salt +lemon juice + curd and set this aside/in fridge. Maybe for 20 minutes minimum.

2. Pour oil in the pressure cooker and bring it to smoky hot…now add the spices one by one…cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaves, cloves, maratti mokku and birinji flower to it. Let them fry for a while.

3. Add chillies, and wait till it splutters.

4. Followed by onion and remaining ginger-garlic paste. Fry them well till its raw smell leaves.

5. Now add tomatoes, coriander leaves and mint. Fry them until all water content evaporates and oil shows up in the top.

4. Now start adding marinated vegetables to this and toss them well.

5. Add food color(optional), salt and red chili power. Semi cook them without adding any water….until the raw smell of chili powder goes.

6. Now add water 5 cups of water and bring it to boil followed by cracked wheat. Pressure cook them over medium heat till one whistle or two maximum. Never release the pressure before time. Let it be on dum for 10-15 minutes.

Serve hot with onion raita, mint chutney and brinjal serva.