Vermicelli Vegetable Pulao/Semiya Pulao

One of the easiest dish you can dish out quickly is this semiya pulao aka vermicelli pulao, if you have all the ingredients at home, you can prepare this easy breezy one pot meal within less time. This pulao makes an excellent lunch if served along with some deep fried beauties and raita. A quick dish to prepare and pack earlier in the morning to carry for lunch. Semiya aka vermicelli are really handy, they are as much as like semolina aka rava. If you have a packet of vermicelli at home, you can dish out couple of delicious,simple and quick dishes out of it. Obviously vermicelli is a life saver. From a simple starter to a delicious kheer, you can make different dishes out of them. My today's post is an excellent pulao with couple of vegetables and vermicelli. Actually i was planning to make a semiya upma with vegetables for our dinner, but i skipped it as we went out for dinner. The next day without any fail, i dished out this pulao for our lunch.

Served with some Prawn fritters/Prawn Bhaji, everyone at home enjoyed thoroughly this aromatic and flavoursome pulao. If you are searching for a simple and quick dish to pack for your kid's lunch box, am sure this colourful and vegetable loaded vermicelli pulao sounds prefect for it. Am running this week's of blogging marathon with Easy school recipes as theme, obviously this vermicelli pulao makes a prefect entry for this theme na. Hence am posting this aromatic dish for this week's theme.

2 cups Roasted Vermicelli

2+1/2cups Mixed veggies ( chopped potato, carrots, green peas,capsicums,frenchbeans)

1no Onion(sliced)

1tsp Ginger-garlic paste

4nos  Green chili(slit opened)

1no Tomato ( chopped)
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
1tsp Garam masala powder

3cups Water

3 tbsp Oil

Salt

For tempering:

1tsp Fennel seeds

1no Bay leaf

2-3nos Cloves

2nos Cardamoms

1 inch cinnamon

Heat oil and fry all the whole spices until they turns brown.

Add the onions and cook until they turns transculent,add the ginger-garlic paste and saute for a minute.

Now add the tomatoes and slit opened green chilies and saute for 2-3 minutes on a low flame.

Finally add all the veggies,,garam masala powder and saute again for few minutes on a low flame.

Add the 3cups of water, salt and cook everything in medium high flame for few minutes.

Once the water starts boiling, add the vermicelli and cook in medium flame until the vermicelli gets cooked.

Put off the stove, dont disturb for few minutes.

Serve this pulao with raita of your choice.

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