Mishti Pulao - Bengali Sweet Pulao
 
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A Bengali style savory rice recipe with a hint of sweet. The delicate flavor of this rice dish makes it perfect for serving at dinner party, Eid party or as special weekend meal.
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Recipe type: Mishti Pulao
Cuisine: Bangladeshi
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 2 cup Kalijeera rice (or Basmati rice as substitute)
  • 4 – 6 tablespoon butter (melted)
  • ½ cup oil
  • 3-4 cardamom
  • 2-3 cinnamon sticks, about 1 inch each
  • 1-2 bay leaves
  • ¼ tablespoon Caraway Seeds
  • 4-5 shallot, sliced (or 1 cup beresta)
  • 1 tablespoon ginger paste
  • 1 tablespoon garlic paste
  • 2 tablespoon poppy seed
  • 4-5 green chili
  • 10-12 golden raisin
  • 2 tablespoon powder milk
  • 1 teaspoon salt, or per taste
  • 2 tablespoon sugar, or per taste
  • 4 cup hot water
  • A pinch of food color
  • FOR GARNISH
  • ½ cup beresta
Instructions
  1. Wash and drain rice.
  2. Heat oil in a pot and fry chopped shallots to make beresta (you can also use ready to use beresta mix) and set aside in a bowl.
  3. Lightly fry cardamom, cinnamon, Caraway Seeds, ginger paste, garlic paste, poppy seed, greeen chili, raisin in the same oil for 5-6 minutes and put in the beresta bowl.
  4. Mix sugar with all the ingredients set aside in the beresta bowl.
  5. Use the same pot and oil to lightly fry the rice for 2-3 minutes and then pour hot water.
  6. Put salt in rice pan.
  7. pot to allow rice to semi cook in medium heat for 10 -15 min and allow water to be dried.
  8. Once rice is cooked, turn the stove to low heat position.
  9. In the rice pot, add half the beresta and sugar mixture with half the melted butter.
  10. Add food color if preferred.
  11. Carefully turn over rice to allow the mixture to go to the bottom and then add the other half of mix and butter and turn over rice again.
  12. Allow the rice to cook with beresta mix for 5 – 10 min in very low heat.
  13. Serve Mishti polau garnished with beresta and your favorite meat curry.
Recipe by WithASpin at https://withaspin.com/2021/11/19/mishti-pulao-recipe/