Tehri
Tehri is a type of rice dish cooked with potatoes, you can say Potato Pullao. It is a low cost rice dish cooked during summer, however can be cooked in any season.
Ingredients:
- Rice 1/2 kg
- Potatoes diced 3
- Onion chopped 1
- Tomatoes 3
- Oil 1 cup
- Green Chillies whole 2
- Ginger paste 1 teaspoon
- Garlic paste 1 teaspoon
- Salt to taste
- Red Chilli powder 1 teaspoon
- Haldi powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Black pepper whole 12
- Cardamom brown whole 2
- Cardamom green whole 4
- Cinnamon stick 1 inch piece
- Cumin seeed whole 1 teaspoon
- Tez patta 2
- Cloves whole 6
Procedure:
- Soak Rice in water for 1/2 hour.
- Now fry onion in oil till golden brown.
- Add garam masalas ingredients and ginger garlic fry for 2 minutes then add Tomatoes, red chilli powder, haldi and salt and fry for 3-5 minutes.
- Add potatoes and cook till half tender.
- At this stage add 1 and 1/2 cup water and rice, cook till Rice is nearly cooked.
- Add green chillies and simmer.
- Delicious Tehri is ready.
- Serve with Kachumbar Salad and Mint Raita.
