Pudina Rice is an aromatic and flavorful one pot dish made using rice, mint leaves, spices and herbs. Pudina Rice is enjoyed with raita and a good choice to make it for a weekend lunch. Learn to make super easy and aromatic Pudina Rice.
I always love the flavor of mint leaves either in chutney or thogayal or biriyani. Biryani or Pulao is not complete without the addition of mint leaves in it, it adds so much flavor to the dish. This pudina is very simple and easy to make, do try this and enjoy!
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About Pudina Rice
‘Pudina’ in hindi means mint leaves so Pudina Rice is a flavored one pot dish made with pudina and rice as main ingredients. This Pudina Rice is made pulao style and is very tasty. Pudina or Mint leaves is an Indian herb used most commonly for making chutney, biryani, pulao, curry, dips etc.
This mint rice is a great way to use up a bunch of mint leaves. This tastes more like pulao that is made in pressure cooker so very easy and quick to make. This rice is perfect to pack for lunchbox for kids and office goers.
This pulao style pudina rice is super aromatic and flavorful perfect for lunch. It goes well with raita or even plain curd. You can even make it in a pot or pressure cooker or even instant pot. I have added potatoes to make it wholesome, you can add in other vegetables too.
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Mint Rice Ingredients
- Rice – Use any long grained rice or basmati rice for best results. However you can use regular parboiled rice too.
- Mint leaves – Use fresh tender mint leaves that is green.
- Whole spices – Cinnamon, cloves and cardamom is added.
- Potato – Potato is cubed and added to make this rice wholesome.
- Spice powders – Red chili powder and garam masala powder is added.
How to make Pudina Rice
1.Soak the rice in water for 30 minutes. Drain rice and keep aside.
2. Grind the pudina leaves with the coconut, green chilies and tomatoes to a fine paste.
3. Heat ghee in a pressure cooker, add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon, and saute for about a minute Then add the ginger garlic paste fry for 2mins next add chopped onions and sauté until the onions turn light brown.
4. Add the ground paste to the pan and fry till raw smell leaves. Add red chili powder, garam masala powder sauté for a minute. Now add potato, required salt and basmati rice and mix well with the masalas and fry for 2-3 minutes .
5.Add 1 and 1/2 cups of water to the above mixture and pressure cook it for 2 whistles. When the pressure releases gently turn over taking care not to break the rice. You can garnish with ghee fried cashews.
Expert Tips
- I use 1 : 1.5 ratio that is for 1 cup rice I used 1 and 1/2 cups of water. You can make it 2 cups water too.
- Soaking basmati rice for minimum 15 minutes is needed for soft fluffy rice.
- You can add 1/4 cup coriander leaves for added flavor.
- Basmati rice works best however you can use any long grained rice for best results.
- You can even use parboiled rice but make sure to adjust water accordingly.
Serving & Storage
Pudina rice is best with onion raita or plain curd. It can be served with papad too. This keeps good in fridge for 1 day. You can reheat while serving if in fridge.
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Pudina Rice Recipe | Mint Pulao Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 1 big onion
- 1 small potato
- 2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- salt to taste
To grind to a smooth paste
- 1 cup mint leaves
- 2 tablespoon coconut
- 1 tomato
- 1 green chili
To temper
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 tablespoon ghee
- 1/2 inch cinnamon
- 1 cardamom
- 2 cloves
Instructions
- Soak the rice in water for 30 minutes. Drain rice and keep aside.
- Grind the pudina leaves with the coconut, green chilies and tomatoes to a fine paste.
- Heat ghee in a pressure cooker, add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon, and saute for about a minute Then add the ginger garlic paste fry for 2mins next add chopped onions and sauté until the onions turn light brown.
- Add the ground paste to the pan and fry till raw smell leaves. Add red chili powder, garam masala powder sauté for a minute. Now add potato, required salt and basmati rice and mix well with the masalas and fry for 2-3 minutes .
- Add 1 and 1/2 cups of water to the above mixture and pressure cook it for 2 whistles. When the pressure releases gently turn over taking care not to break the rice. You can garnish with ghee fried cashews.
Notes
- I use 1 : 1.5 ratio that is for 1 cup rice I used 1 and 1/2 cups of water. You can make it 2 cups water too.
- Soaking basmati rice for minimum 15 minutes is needed for soft fluffy rice.
- You can add 1/4 cup coriander leaves for added flavor.
- Basmati rice works best however you can use any long grained rice for best results.
- You can even use parboiled rice but make sure to adjust water accordingly.
Sanjeeta kk
Lovely rice Sharmilee, good clicks. Like the coconut paste in the recipe.
Hari Chandana
Woww.. yummy and aromatic pulao.. looks perfect!!
Nithya
Wow.. this looks perfect as a dish and the pic is good too 🙂
I like the flavor of mint in my dishes too. Same pinch 🙂
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
Simply beautiful and lovely. I will surely try this one 🙂
Torviewtoronto
delicious colourful rice
Kairali sisters
Lovely, flavorful rice Sharmi…
Nitha
Delicious rice…
Prathibha
Ha ha…I liked ur repeated cooking for the photography….Mint pulao looks yumm..I love the flavor of mint..
jeyashrisuresh
i too do this especially for the recipe which i posted now(bisibelabath).
Mint puloa looks very yummy and ur version of adding tomatoes is quite intersting.
RAKS KITCHEN
Oh,thanks to blogging and your photography mania 😛 But sure it looks very tempting,the rice grains looks separate and perfectly cooked 🙂
chaitrali pathak
delicious rice…love the minty flavour
suma
You made the dish repeatedly to get a good click is it:-))?? i do not have much patience or skills when it comes to photography. I make do with whatever looks like the better of my pics and I guess its obvious from the pics on my blog. The rice looks perfect!!
lavi
Pic is the Proof of the recipe. this is my favourite dish! have to try by this week.
GEETHA ACHAL
Its looks so tempting and nice click….Thanks for sharing…
Sarah Naveen
Its such a comfort food…flavorful and yummy!!!
Shabitha Karthikeyan
Lovely rice.I too love the addition of pudhina in food the aroma freshens me..That is a great click Sharmi !!!
Gulmohar
Love this flavorful rice…yumm
Sharmilee! :)
Thanks gals…U all make me feel now the repetition of this rice for the sake of click was worth it 🙂
Yummy Team
Lovely rice..Love this recipe, will surely try it sometime..You are so very right, mint (and cilantro) brings out a wonderful flavour in biriyanis..I cant even think of preparing a biriyani without those herbs..
I tried your ovenroasted chickpeas last week and it tasted really crispy and yummy..Thanks a lot for sharing…
Radhika
I know what you are saying Sharmilee, I try couple of time even more before I can post few recipes. But you have given us a winner recipe.It makes me drool yaar.
Rachana
The pudina rice looks great! Yumm!
Sharmilee! :)
@Yummy Team : Thanks Yummy Team for trying out channa roast and letting me know!
jayasree
Rice looks very delectable…Tempting color.
Premalatha Aravindhan
wow wat a delicious pulao,luks perfect…
Brinthakuppusamy
I wanted to try Mint rice. I had a doubt whether to add tomato or not; i preparred it without tomato. Then I saw internet and added tomato. Thanks to u for the receipe
Brintha Kuppusamy, Sammamish, Seattle
Sharmilee! :)
@Brintha: I have used 1/2 tomato, if you want u can use 1 tomato also….Tomato brings a nice flavour to this pulao
Vidya Mohan
i tried this today and it became hit in my office 🙂 my hubby too liked it 🙂
karkum
i tried tis recepie came out so well tanku
Mini Madhusudan
This looks yummy and i am going to try it out for this weekend 🙂
Merlyn
hi sharmi..
i tried this for lunch today…i used 1 whole tomato instead of half.. d color of d rice was like of biryani n not like how its in d pic 🙁
should i have added more mint leaves? it tasted good.. but d color!?
Sharmilee! :)
@Mwrlyn : Yes the color depends…when you add more tomatoes the color will change….yeah next time add in more mint leaves to get the green color
Merlyn
ok sharmi…thank u so much. will do tht nxt time!
kalyani
delicious pulao…am going to try this tomorrow…how many whistles required while pressure cooking?awaiting for ur reply
Sharmilee! :)
@Kalyani : You can leave for 3-4 whistles
kalyani
thanks a lot for ur instant reply:-) will try out n update u
Manju
Hi sharmi tried this recipe today came out soo well.my 2yr old kid loved the rice. thanks for sharing the recipe
Manju
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Sharmi can I cook it without whistle
SHARMILEE J
Yes you can do that too
BageerathiMutharasu
its very tasty. different taste. I like very much and our family also. thank you so much.
Dhurga
Very nice .. my kutty loved it.. thanks fr ur lunch box recipes.. very useful
Melisha noronha
I made this today and it was amazing. I tripled the recipe because I was making it for two meals. I added soya chunks as well and it was a good addition. Thank you for your simple yet yummy recipes.
Karthika
Hi
Can we use coriander leaves instead of pudhina and follow the same recipe?any change should be done?
Sharmilee J
you can replace and try