Raw Banana Tehri

Raw Banana Tehri 

Staple of vegetarian households in the dusty small towns of Uttar Pradesh, tehri is a potent one-pot meal that owes its origin to the vegetarian employees of the Nawabs of Awadh, who could not eat the meaty biryani, and invented a vegetarian counterpart which was simpler to make. Another story goes that during the time of famine, when meat was hard to find, the cooks of the royal kitchen substituted mutton with potatoes, and thus was born tehri.

Unlike pulav or biryani, tehri is neither rich nor ceremonial, but an ordinary meal for ordinary people. And in that ordinariness lies its specialty. Although cooked throughout the year, it is in spring that the true character of the dish comes out, when other than potatoes, peas and cauliflower are also added to it.

One does not know if the rice dish got its colour from spring or if spring adopted tehri for its rich yellow colour, but when bright yellow flowers blossom on the rich soil of the Hindi heartland, a pot of tehri is certainly being cooked somewhere.

Tehri is U.P. special. It is not Pulav,  it is not Biryani but something in the middle of these two. It can be made of various vegetables and this time I made of Raw Banana. 

Delicious rice dish, one pot meal you can make any busy day and this method is so easy. The preparation is not heavy and can be served with raita and papad .

Tehri recipe link is below, only difference is use of raw Banana here. I peeled and cut those in discs and fried them first, then added in masala.

Tehri Recipe Link.