Another gift in our series of recipes shared by our multicultural staff at Smartpack. As promised we will publish another delicious homemde dish from around the world every  three to four months to interupt the flow of technical and design blog articles.

Kashmira is our production office manager and has been with the company for over ten years. Kashmira was born in Mumbai and was originally qualified as an interior designer. She has agreed to share this recipe with our blog followers and we at Smartpack custom kitchen and Smartpack Creativ hope you enjoy preparing and eating this typical Indian dish.

Peas Pullav

Rice with peas – Serve with plain yogurt

Ingredients

1 cup rice (Indian long grain basmati rice) rinsed, soaked for one hour & drained

1 cup frozen peas

1 medium sized potato cut into medium pieces

1 tsp each of cumin & coriander powder

2 cups water

½ cup finely chopped coriander

½ cup finely chopped chives

Juice of ½ a lemon

Whole Spices for Tempering

1 tbsp oil

1 tsp cumin seeds

½ piece of cinnamon stick

4 to 5 curry leaves

2 cloves

1 medium onion thinly sliced

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Happy New Year everybody. I thought - enough with the technical blogs for our Smartpack readers,  so, as a New Year gift, my wife has agreed to gift this recipe to all the followers of our Smartpack blog. If this proves popular then I will intersperse more of her recipes (and favourites from my mother) among the latest technical and interest articles every month.

A fantastic  pre-dinner snack with drinks served with rice crackers or ryvita biscuits. This will be a whole conversation by itself with your guests. 

Well enjoy and may the best of 2011 be the worst of 2012 for you all from the Smartpack team.