Uttar Pradesh x Spain
Tahari paella
Awadh's yellow vegetable rice cooked flat in one wide pan, crust and all. Paella, the tahari way.
60 minTime
12 gProtein each
mediumSpice
Yellow rice of the north3 chapters · 2 min readMake it your way
Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.
The original541kcal
12 gprotein
9 gfibre
60minutes
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.
Ingredients
Method
6 steps- 1Heat the ghee and oil in a wide 30 cm pan. Add whole spices, bay leaf and cumin, then the onion. Fry 8 minutes until golden.
- 2Add ginger garlic paste, tomato and the powders. Lower the heat, stir in the curd and cook 4 minutes.
- 3Add the potato, cauliflower, carrot and pepper and fry 4 minutes.
- 4Add the drained rice, stir once to coat and spread evenly. Pour in the boiling water with salt and scatter the peas on top. Do not stir again.
- 5Boil hard 5 minutes, then cook on the lowest heat for 12 minutes.
- 6Raise the heat for the last 2 minutes, then cover with a cloth and rest 5 minutes. Finish with lemon, coriander and mint.
Serve it like this
Take the pan straight to the table, lemon wedges around the edge, and scrape the crust up with each serving.
