Chana Pulao Recipe

Name: Chana Pulav Recipe | Chana Pulao Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 515 min
Ingredients: 3 tbsp Oil; 1 Bay Leaf; 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam; 1 Star Anise / Anasipu -; 4 Green Cardamom / Yelakai; 1 Black Cardamom; 1 stick Cinnamon / Pattai; 1 Mace / Javitri; 1 medium size sliced thinly Onion; 1 sliced Tomato; 3 chopped Green Chillies; 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste; Salt to taste; 1 cup cooked Kala Chana / Chana; 1 cup Basmati Rice; 1 cup and ½ cup of cooking liquid from kala chana Water

July 15, 2022 By Aarthi 9 Comments

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Chana Pulao Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe quick and is with protein rich chickpeas and this is one delicious pot of rice.

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3. Chana Pulao Recipe Step by Step

Chana Pulav

This pulav i made for todays lunch, i couldn't wait to share it with you. It is inspired from a meal which i ate when i was travelling, i had this with dal and butter chicken and it is the dinner which i had in flight. And i loved the flavours and combination of that. So i thought of making that for lunch today, i also made moong dal tadka to go with it. It will be shared in my next post.

Ingredients for Chana Pulav

Oil - 3 tbsp
Bay Leaf - 1
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
Star Anise / Anasipu - 1
Green Cardamom / Yelakai - 4
Black Cardamom - 1
Cinnamon / Pattai - 1 stick
Mace / Javitri - 1
Onion - 1 medium size sliced thinly
Tomato - 1 sliced
Green Chillies - 3 chopped
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Kala Chana / Chana - 1 cup cooked
Basmati Rice - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup and ½ cup of cooking liquid from kala chana

This is pretty easy pulao, great to put in your kids lunch box. If you pre cook the chana the previous day itself, then you don't have to worry about anything. It can be made in minutes.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

How to Make Chana Pulao

Soak chana overnight, drain water add it to a pressure cooker, cover with fresh water.
Add little salt and pressure cook this for 15 to 20 whistle till chana gets soft.
Drain it and reserve the chana cooking liquid as well.
Soak Basmati rice for 30 mins.
Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add in the whole spices and saute for a min.
Add in onions and green chillies. Saute till golden.
Now add in ginger garlic paste and salt. Mix well.
Add in tomatoes and mix well with the onions.
Then add in cooked chana and mix well. Add in the drained rice and toss well.
Now add in ½ cup of chana cooking liquid and water. Cover and pressure cook for 1 whistle, simmer the pan for 5 to 8 mins.
Turn off the heat and let the steam escape all by itself. Open the cooker and fluff the rice.
Serve.

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Chana Pulao Recipe Step by Step

Take all your ingredients

These are the whole spices you will be using

First i soaked chana overnight, Then I cooked chana
till it gets soft in a pressure cooker
along with some salt for 15 to 20 whistle.

I soaked 1 cup of basmati rice for 30 mins

Heat oil in a pressure cooker

Add in the seasoning ingredients

now add in onions and green chillies

Saute till onion turns golden

add in ginger garlic paste

and some salt

cook till it is done

add in a slice tomato

mix well

add in cooked chana

Mix that well

add in soaked drained basmati rice

mix that around

I measured ½ cup of the cooking liquid from chana

poured that in

i added a additional 1 cup of water

Mix well..Cover and pressure cook

Now it is done

fluff up the rice and serve

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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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Uma Shankar

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very nutricious and easy one to make

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Anonymous

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Can we add channa masala powder to this dish?

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Aarthi

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@Anonymousif u want you can use

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Bharathi

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Hi Aarthi

Can we add vegetables like carrot and beans along with this pulao? Do you think it would be nice with it? Wanted to try this for my kid to make him eat channa as he usually likes pulao.

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Aarthi

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@Bharathiyes u can add any veggies as well

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Cynthia

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What basmati rice do you use? Recommend?

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- Aarthi
  
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  I recommend india gate classic
  
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