When Lataji said she was disappointed that the Cauliflower Peas Pulao I posted was not made in microwave, I promised her that I will make a dish specially for her. So since it was off for me yesterday, I decided that I will make a combo meal for hubby dear in the microwave and please two birds in one shot. Meaning hubby dear says I am not using the microwave enough in actually cooking as such in making pulaos or curries. Imagine his pleasant surprise knowing that both the dishes were out from the microwave.

It was a hectic day at home, with kids wanting me to make them muffins and biscuits. I made both and it all vanished within minutes. One new version I made with baked biscuits I had sense enough to click picture and the muffins turned out super crumbly that I ate more than my share.

Microwave Subz Pulao with Carrot Kofta Curry ~ Our Lunch

Coming back to the Pulao, the Microwave oven came with a recipe book by Nita Mehta and has colourful pictures of dishes made completely in Microwave. I decided I should first try out all those recipes listed. Surprisingly this is the only vegetarian rice recipe in the book. It has many gravy ideas, most of them look really drool worthy.

This Pulao is very interesting as it uses Saboot Masala in a bag. The spice bad concept sounds very nice and I might be trying it out for my kid's pulao as we have a tough job parsing all the spices from their plate. As I always say, cooking in the microwave leaves your mind hassle free. Not that you don't have to worry about what happens, yes you do have to. Yet somehow you can think of doing other chores as it gets cooked.

Update: Saboot by definition means whole and in this pulao it should be used as whole spices. The book asks us to crush the spices, I seem to have misunderstood and almost powered it. But even otherwise, it is supposed to be used as a whole spice mix. Thanks, Niv for the clarification.

In my case, it works out great because I won't have the work on getting the spice out for the kids.

In a microwave safe bowl, take oil, ginger & garlic paste, potato, carrots and beans. Microwave for 3 minutes.

Crush the saboot masala in a mixer couple of times

Tie the masala in a small muslin cloth.

When the vegetables are done, add rice, chili powder, haldi, spice bag. Micro for 6 min.

Add tomatoes, mint, coriander green chilies. Stir gently with a fork. Microwave covered for 7 minutes.

Wait for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork. Remove spice bag

Subz Pulao with Saboot Masala in microwave Recipe.

Ingredients Needed:

Basmati Rice - 1 & 1/2 cup
Ginger Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder a pinch
Red Chilli powder 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 2 tsp

Water - 3 cups

Vegetables:

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Potato - 1 medium
Carrots - 1 long
French Beans - 5 -6
Tomato 1 medium
Green chilies 3 cut into thin strips
Mint leaves 5 leaves
Coriander leaves 5 -6 twigs

Spice Bag (crush together & tie in a piece of muslin cloth)

Black peppercorns - 10
Fennel seeds - 2 tsp
Green cardamom - 4
Black cardamom - 4
Cloves - 4
Cinnamon - 2 sticks

Method to prepare:

Wash and soak rice for 20 - 30 minutes. When cooking in the microwave, the more it soaks it gets well cooked.

Then clean and chop the vegetables.

Pulse the spices in a mixer for a couple of times. Take the spice blend in a muslin cloth and tie it together.

In a microwave-safe bowl, take oil, ginger & garlic paste, potato, carrots, and beans. Microwave for 3 minutes.

Drain the soaked rice. Add the rice, 3 cups water, turmeric powder, red chili powder & salt to the bowl. Mix well. Add the spice bag. Microwave covered for 6 minutes.

Stir in between to make sure the rice is mixed well.

Then add tomatoes, mint leaves, coriander leaves, green chilies. Stir gently with a fork. Microwave for 7 minutes.

Let it rest inside the oven for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork. Remove spice bag.

Serve with raita. I served with carrot Kofta curry

Notes:

The original recipe calls for 5 tbsp of oil, which I don't think I will ever be able to add. You can add cauliflower, peas and lemon juice which I didn't. You can also cook the pan covered after adding the tomatoes, I didn't.

Since the rice tends to be spicy on its own, you can simply serve this with raitha.

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Saboot Masala Subz Pulao in Microwave | Step By Step Recipe

Course Main Dish - Rice

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Author Srivalli

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Archana says
April 24, 2011 at 9:50 am
Cannot wait for my microwave to be repaired! Delicious. Love the spice bag idea.
Divya.M says
April 24, 2011 at 11:28 am
wonderful colour...really eye appealing...has not tried any of the microwave cooking.....will try this out...
Champa says
April 24, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Nice variation of the pulao.
Nitha says
April 24, 2011 at 11:36 pm
I ve never tried a dish in microwave.. Should try these soon..
jayasree says
April 25, 2011 at 8:31 am
Colorful rice...Loved the clicks. Liked the idea of the spice bag.
Nithu says
April 25, 2011 at 3:03 am
Wonderful pulao. Can't wait to try. And I have submitted my recipe for the breakfast mela.
Suparna says
April 25, 2011 at 3:20 am
Thanks srivalli, wanna try mv pulao sometime very soon, it really is a time saver.
lata raja says
April 25, 2011 at 6:07 am
A drool worthy rice dish...Love the colour of the rice.
Kadhyaa... says
April 25, 2011 at 12:24 pm
loved the idea masla spice bag..love to experiment with my Microwave too 🙂
SravsCulinaryConcepts says
April 26, 2011 at 1:42 am
colorful and delicious pulao !!
divya says
April 26, 2011 at 2:24 am
Very tempting and mouthwatering pulao....
Priya says
April 26, 2011 at 7:58 am
Marvellous pulao, simply inviting..
Uma says
April 27, 2011 at 5:08 am
lovely dish. looks so delicious.
Srivalli says
April 27, 2011 at 1:00 am
Thank you everybody!

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