Pink Pillau

Name: Pink Pillau
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: ¾ tsp turmeric; 2 tbsp broken cashew nuts; Five curry leaves; Salt; 2 mugs basmati rice; 4 tbsp oil; 3 aubergines or courgettes, cut small; 1 tsp each cumin seeds and mustard seeds; 2 hot green chillies, chopped; 2 chopped onions; 6 cooked beetroots (they make fresh blood, Mum said)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

2 mugs basmati rice
2 chopped onions
2 hot green chillies, chopped

Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

In a saucepan with a lid, boil plenty of salted water.
Wash rice and cook in the boiling water for six minutes.
Drain away the water, cover, turn the temperature right down, and leave for seven minutes.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a pan and throw in all the seeds.
After three minutes add the curry leaves and chillies. It should all siz