Ingredients:

• 4 cups – basmati Rice
• 1-2 lbs – Mushroom (16-32 oz)
• 3/4 cup – oil and Ghee (melted butter)
• 1 – Lemon
• 3 tsp – chopped Ginger
• 7 – Cloves of Garlic
• 4 – Green chillies
• 2 – Onions (cut lengthwise)
• 2 tsp – soy sauce (soya sauce in India)
• 3 – Tomatoes
• 1.5 tsp – chilli powder
• 3 tsp – coriander powder
• 3 – Cinnamon
• 3 – Cardamom
• 3 – Cloves
• Salt to taste
• Cilantro (coriander leaves), Mint leaves (pudhina) for garnishing

Method:

1. Soak rice for 1 hour.
2. Wash and cut mushrooms into big pieces.
3. Cut onions, chillies, tomatoes.
4. Grind cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger, garlic into a paste.
5. In a pressure cooker, heat the oil and ghee, fry ground masala and the onion till golden brown. To this add all other ingredients, mushrooms and stir for 10 mins.
6. Add 7 cups water and allow it to boil, add the soaked rice and stir when rice level and water level are the same, pressure cook (with whistle on it) in low flame for 15 mins.

Recipe courtesy of Marium