Delicious Slow Cooker Spiced Vegetable Rice. A quick & easy one pot meal great eaten as is with yogurt & pickle or serve with some grilled meat for a complete filling meal!
Enjoying weekend & don’t feel like going out to eat and just the thought of cooking something makes you feel tired?! Yes, that’s me and so if you have been following my love for slow cooker recipes lately, this is my newest addition! And this won’t disappoint! I have been lately experimenting a lot with my favorite Indian recipes and making them in slow cooker to save time but still get the same exact flavors!
Growing up spiced vegetable rice or pulao as called in some parts of India was my all time favorite meal to eat. To this day whenever I my mom is visiting or I am home in India, I request her to make this for me! But this time I decided it was time to make it slow cooker friendly! And it turned out to be so simple!
I just added all the ingredients in slow cooker an in about 1.5 hours it was ready! And it smelled, looked and tasted exactly the way it does when made in pressure cooker! So good when eaten with plain yogurt on the side and mango pickle! Or if you want to add some protein, then serve it along with some grilled meat or this one pot chicken curry will go great!
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- 1 cup basmati rice, washed and rinsed
- 2 potatoes, peeled and chopped and boiled for 3 minutes in microwave
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 2-3 green chilies, chopped
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 2 tomatoes, pureed
- 1-2 tsp red chili powder or as per taste
- 1 cup green peas
- Finely chopped cilantro for garnishing
- Preheat slow cooker for 15-20 minutes.
- Add rice along with potatoes to slow cooker. Add 2 cups water.
- Meanwhile in a small deep pot, add oil. Once hot add cumin seeds. As they start to pop, add green chilies, tomato puree, salt, red chili powder and turmeric powder. Let it cook for few minutes.
- Add this mix to rice and potato mix and stir. Cover and cook on high for 1 - 1.5 hours. You will notice that rice would have absorbed all the water and will not be chewy anymore. Add green peas and cover and let slow cooker stay on warm for 30 minutes.
- Garnish with freshly chopped cilantro and serve!
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Indian food has always seemed daunting to make myself, but I can definitely do some slow cooker rice, especially when it looks THIS delicious! I need to try this recipe soon!
This and curry together sounds like my dream meal. I’m loving all of these spices!
Lol! Ami we are rockin’ on the same wavelength! I don’t know what it is recently, maybe the holiday crazy, but just the THOUGHT of cooking has been too much to handle for sure! So I say, bring on the slow cooker recipes, please and thank you! This spice vegetable rice looks absolutely delicious!! Easy-peasy weeknight dinner winning up in here! Cheers! <3
I loooooove Indian-style rice and this crockpot version seriously looks so easy, I absolutely need this in my dinner life tonight! Can’t get enough of all that veggie goodness!
Just found your blog. Indian food is my favorite but I don’t know why I have this idea in my head that it’s nearly impossible to make at home. I will be trying many of your recipes 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment Diana!! I agree that for most of us Indian cuisine seems daunting but I have tried to make it as simple as possible and equally delicious 🙂 You can try many of my family’s favorite Indian recipes here ->> https://www.naivecookcooks.com/category/indian-inspired/ 🙂