For this week’s BM, I have selected One Pot Meals as my theme. I usually make rice, gravy and a side dish for lunch and Sruti’s lunch box, but with this theme, I made three one pot dishes for my daughter’s lunch box. Instead of usual rice varieties, I went for some different recipes. This pulao is one of them.
For me radish is a vegetable perfect to be added in sambar. I always buy one radish and use it in sambar. And I have never tried anything else with it. This time, I had two radishes and made this pulao for a change. Using kitchen king masala in pulao is also my first. I read about it in Valli’s blog and noted it down and tried it in this recipe. For me, it was a very unusual pulao with different vegetable and different flavour. I added some extra chillies and so it became so spicy. I have reduced it in the recipe. I served it with brussel sprouts poriyal and it was a nice simple lunch.
Ingredients:
Rice – 1 cup
Radish – 1 cup, sliced
Green Chilly – 3
Ginger – 1″ piece
Oil – 1 tbs
Shahi Jeera – 1 tsp
Onion – 1
Tomato – 1
Water – 2 1/2 – 3 Cups
Kitchen King Masala – 1 tsp
Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
Salt – to taste
Procedure:
Grind together ginger and green chillies to a smooth paste.
In a pressure cooker, add oil and add shahi jeera.
When it crackles, add in the green chilly paste and sauté for a minute.
Add onions and radish and sauté until the onions are translucent.
Add tomato and cook until mushy.
Add the washed and drained rice and sauté for 2 minutes.
Add water, turmeric powder, kitchen king masala and salt.
Cover and cook for five minutes.
When pressure is gone, open the cover and fluff it with a fork.
Serve hot with a side dish.

Radish Pulao Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Rice - 1 cup
- Radish - 1 cup sliced
- Green Chilly - 3
- Ginger - 1" piece
- Oil - 1 tbs
- Shahi Jeera - 1 tsp
- Onion - 1
- Tomato - 1
- Water - 2 1/2 - 3 Cups
- Kitchen King Masala - 1 tsp
- Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
- Salt - to taste
Instructions
Procedure
- Grind together ginger and green chillies to a smooth paste.
- In a pressure cooker, add oil and add shahi jeera.
- When it crackles, add in the green chilly paste and sauté for a minute.
- Add onions and radish and sauté until the onions are translucent.
- Add tomato and cook until mushy.
- Add the washed and drained rice and sauté for 2 minutes.
- Add water, turmeric powder, kitchen king masala and salt.
- Cover and cook for five minutes.
- When pressure is gone, open the cover and fluff it with a fork.
- Serve hot with a side dish.
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Never tried radish in pulao as well. Now am tempted to give a try Gayathri. Well done.
This is an interesting and unusual pulao with radish Gayathri. I am going to try this one — I have all the ingredients at home.
Gayathri, radish in a pulao is so new for me too..when my Athamma first made a chutney with it, I was zapped on how delicious it was, then we make poriya..pulao sounds too good..
Never tried pulao with radish. This is very interesting. will give it a try. Great share
Simple and unusual radish rice…Must try
I have never tried radish with rice. Looks interesting, though.
Never made radish pulao. Initially even I use to bring radish only for pappu charu. But now I added to soups, salads/kosambiri and once in while just saute sliced radish with simple spices. Remember you gave us sambhar powder, I even sprinkled it on sauted radish to enhance the flavor of sauted radish.