• Rice – 2 cups
• White Channa – 1 Cup
• potatoes – 1 Cup (cut into cubes)
• Bay leaves – 2
• Cloves – 4
• Cinnamon – 3-4
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Onion – 3 Sliced
• Green Chilli – 3 nos
• Oil – 3 tsp
• Ghee – 2 tsp
• Curry & Coriander leaves – for garnishing
• Salt – to taste
• Water – as required

Soak Channa overnight and keep them.

Take a pressure cooker and add oil.
Add the cloves, cinnamon and bay leaves.

Now add the sliced onions, sliced green chilli and also the ginger garlic paste.

Sauté them until the raw flavor fades.
Now add the Potato cubes and the channa.

Add the raw rice directly without soaking in water or without washing it.

Mix well and add ghee (if you are diet conscious you can add gingelly or sesame or til oil) and saute.

Now add the required salt and water.

Mix well and allow the rice to cook for 2 whistles.
After steam subsides, open the cooker and garnish with the curry and coriander leaves.

Aloo Channa Pulao is ready to serve.
Serve hot with Raita.

by Pak101.com (few years ago!) / 1532 views