Butter Beans Jeera Pulao/Butter Beans Cumin Pilaf

Jeera Pulao, is nothing but a flavourful, cumin flavoured rice. This rice dish is completely an easy breezy dish to prepare with simple cooking process. If you dont want to spend more time in your kitchen and you need absolutely something flavourful, then you should definitely make yourself some Jeera Pulao aka Cumin Pilaf/Rice. Though this rice dish is very simple to make, when served along with some exotic dal, fingerlicking paneer gravies, or else with lipsmacking non vegetarian curries, this rice tastes absolutely fabulous. Yes any sort of gravies or curries goes prefect as side dish to serve along with Jeera Pulao. Jeera Pulao is my all time favourite as this dish replace very well Briyanis or fried rice if you are planning something special for an occasion. I make this rice often and serve along with non vegetarian curries if its Sunday special cooking. But my today's Jeera pulao is a protein rich one. Yes you read it rite, i have prepared a protein rich Jeera pulao just by adding some cooked butter beans.

Butter beans are also known as lima beans, this bean is believed to have their origin from Guatemala and its one of the major food source for American Indian. Like any other beans, these beans are good source of nutrition, rich in protein, fibre, iron and vitamins. Butter are considered as a protein food like meat and chicken. As its has very low fat source of protein, these beans make a healthy alternative to fatty meats that are high in cholesterol. A half a cup of serving of butter beans contains 5grams of protein with 1gram of fat. Butter beans are available as fresh, frozen or else as dried ones. Dried butter beans can be conserved for more than a year and they are seriously handy to cook with if you have already soaked beans in your freezer. Am running a month of blogging marathon with Protein rich dishes as theme, hence am posting this flavourful butter beans jeera pulao for this month's theme.

2cups Rice
1cup Cooked Butter beans
1tbsp Cumin seeds
1no Bay leaf
2nos Black cardamom
3nos Cloves
2nos Green Chillies (slit opened)
1tbsp Ginger (grated)
2tbsp Garlic (grated)
Salt
4cups Water
Oil

Soak the washed rice in water for half an hour, drain the rice.

Heat oil in a pan, fry the bayleaf, cardamom, cloves.

Add the cumin seeds and fry until they turns brown.

Now add the slit opened green chillies, grated ginger and grated garlic and fry until a nice aroma comes from.

Add the rice, cooked butter beans and fry for few minutes, add the water,salt and cook in medium flame until the rice gets cooked.

Put off the stove, keep aside.

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