Pulav has always been a quick fix food for me. I remember the days when I was full time working in corporate and at time me and my husband would be working late then Pulav was the first option which we would both agree upon. Infact the aroma of all the spices cooking together with rice, use to work as an appetizer for us. We would do some quick salad fixing, pickles, roasted papad, cucumber raita and wait for the pressure cooker to finish the job fast. Hunger use to make us finish papad even before we would have pulav served. I am sure if you too are a working couple without kids, you would relate to this story.
Why I said ‘without kids’ because they add lot of conscience to our cooking. With them around we suddenly start looking at food from different angles of health, taste and nutrition. And if you have a kid who wants lot of variety in food, you better be on toes. So it is then when I found this interesting recipe of Tawa Pulav where I simply replaced veggies with chickpeas (chole) as my son preferred the latter more and it just came out really well. So the catch is you get added protein with the carbohydrates with minimal oil.Now you can try this with brown rice too and it would taste equally good .I have used puree to make it little sticky than dry but you can as well replace it with chopped tomatoes or even skip it.If you want it sweet can add ketchup instead of puree and that too would taste good for sure.