Instant pot Vermicelli Pulav | Semiya Pulav
Vermicelli aka Semiya pulav, is a one pot meal that is flavorful made with whole masala, fresh mint and coriander.
Equipment
- Instant Pot - Duo Mini
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups Vermicelli dry roast to golden brown
- 2.5- 3 cups vegetable stock or Water
- 1 cup Mixed vegetables Beans, Potato, Carrot, Peas
- 1 Onion Large, sliced
- 2-3 Tbs Oil
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1 clove Garlic optional
- 2 green chillis Slit in half ( to taste)
- Salt to taste.
Dry masala
- 1 tsp Jeera
- 3 nos Cloves
- 2 nos Green Cardamom
- 2 piece Cinnamon
- 1 nos Javethri
- 1 nos Bay leaf
- 2 Tbs Mint chopped
- 1 Tbs Coriander for garnish chopped.
Instructions
- Slice the veggies of your choice into long pieces. I used onions, carrot, beans, potato. you can also use - cauliflower, broccoli, peas etc...
- Slit the gree chillis, grate the ginger and smash the garlic and set it aside.
- Turn on the Instant pot - Duo mini on saute mode and let it heat. once hot add the oil to the insert.
- Once the oil is hot add the jeera/cumin and let it splutter. Then add the dry masalas to the pot.
- When the masalas start relaseing aroma add in the slit chillis, grated ginger and the garlic. Saute it for about 1 minute.
- Now add in the sliced onions and some salt and let the onion sweat.
- Then add in all the vegetables and cook for about 5 minutes. Add more salt if needed.
- Cook veggies until 3/4th cooked for about 5 minutes. Then add in the roasted vermicelli and give it a good mix. Do not over cook the veggies.
- Coat the vermicelli with the oil, veggies and the masala. Add in the chopped mint and give it a good mix.
- Now add in the 2 and half cups of water and mix well. Adjust water a little bit based on your instinct**
- Now turn the instant pot from saute mode to pressure cook mode.
- Close the lid and cook pressure cook the pulav for 2 minutes and let it release naturally. Takes about 4 - 6 mins.
- Fluffy aromatic pulav is ready to be served.
Notes
- Since vermicelli is long like broken pasta I like to slice my veggies to the same shape and length to keep the texture consistent.
- **The water does look a bit too little for the vermicelli, but this is enough as we are going to steam the dish. if you add more water it may become sticky.
- Add vegetable stock instead of water for enhanced flavor.
- You can squeeze some lemon if you like to add a bit of a tang to the dish.