Ingredients:

• 4 large – Potatoes
• 2 large – Onions
• 1/2 – Coconut
• (red chilli powder, garam masala, 1/2 tsp – Dhania powder, pinch of turmeric, 1 tsp – Ginger Garlic paste
• Cloves, cinnamon(optional)
• 2 cups – basmati Rice
• 3 tbsp – oil

Method:

1. Wash Basmati rice (and soak it for 15 min). Cut potato into big pieces.
2. Cut onions into thin slices and fry them in 1/2 spoon of oil.
3. In a blender grind fried onions, coconut and all the remaining ingredients to make it a thick paste.
4. If you have the time, mix potato and the paste and leave it aside for an hour.
5. In a pressure pan or a deep saucepan, take oil. When it gets heated add the paste and potatoes and fry it for 3 min.
6. Add rice and 4 cups water and let it cook until the potatoes are tender and rice is cooked.

Recipe courtesy of Subbalakshmi