Andhra Royyala Pulav or prawn pulav is a traditional pulav which is very different from Biryani. Pulav usually cooked with rice and spices mixed together. Somehow I didn't know the difference between pulav and Biryani until I started cooking. I Only remember my Mom's famous pulav which is in my blog as Traditional pulav. Coming to non vegetarian dishes, my favorite dish is anything with prawns. As a native of coastal region of Andhra Pradesh we always prefer eating either fish or prawns in Childhood. My mom cooks wonderful prawn combination dishes with veggies. will post those recipes in my blog soon. Coming to Today's recipe, prawn pulav is a recipe gathered from my childhood memories.
Ingredients:
- Rice 4 cups( 180 ml cup)
- Prawns or royyalu 1 lb or nearly 1/2 kg
- Ghee 2 tbsps
- Tomato 1( optional)
- curd 2 tbspns
- Oil 3 tbspns
- Onions sliced(1 big onion)
- Green chilli 3
- chilli powder 1 tspn
- Turmeric powder 1/2 tspn
- salt to taste
- Bay leaf 1
- cloves 2
- cardamom 2
- Biryani flower 1
- Few chopped mint and coriander leaves
Marinating prawn and sautéing prawns
Add 1 tsp. of chilli powder and1/2 tspn of turmeric powder ,1 tspn of ginger garlic paste, salt to washed prawns and keep aside. After 30 mins sauté prawns for 10 to 15 mins until water is evaporated from prawns. keep aside.
Masala paste:
- poppy seeds 2 tbspns
- coriander seeds 2 tbps
- jeera 1/2 tspn
- ginger 2 pieces (1 inch)
- garlic 3 to 4 pods
- coconut fresh or frozen 1 tbspn
Method: Blend all above masalas into fine paste and keep aside.
Procedure:
- Soak rice in water for 30 mins.
- Take a pan, heat oil in the pan, once hot add 2 cloves,2 cardamom,1 bayleaf,1biryani flower, after a min add sliced onions and green chillies.
- Add Masala paste mentioned above to the pan and fry few mins 3to 4 mins then add sautéed prawns to the pan. Fry few mins until prawns well coated with masala.Now add curd and mint and coriander leaves.
- Add soaked rice to the pan and fry few mins the add 8 to 9 cups of water if you are doing in a pan.
- If you are cooking in a pressure cooker just add 8 cups of water for 4 cups of rice.
- I cooked in instantpot added 6 1/2 to 7 cups of water manual for 8 mins on high.
- After done let the pressure release on its own. Then open the lid and serve hot yummy royyala pulav with onion riata.
