Ingredients:

• 1 – onions, large, chopped in long thin slices
• 1 tsp – ginger-garlic paste
• 5 – Cloves
• 3 – cardamom, split open
• 6-7 – green chillies, split longitudinally
• Mixed fresh vegetables
• 1/2 of a Lemon juice
• 2 tbsp – coconut, grated.
• 1 bunch – Coriander leaves
• A few Mint leaves
• 1 tsp – Cumin seeds
• 1 tsp – Fennel seeds (saunf)
• 3 tbsp – oil
• salt to taste.

Method:

1. Grind the coriander leaves and mint leaves with 2 green chillies, with some water (about 3 tbsp) till it becomes a fine paste.
2. Cook the rice with cardamom and cloves in it.
3. Heat oil in a deep pan.
4. Add the fried chopped onions (having a golden brown tinge).
5. Add ginger-garlic paste, fry a little more, then add the cumin, fennel seeds and split chillies.
6. Then add the fresh vegetables, stir fry till they are properly cooked and add the green paste in it.
7. Add a little bit of water and mix it thoroughly.
8. Then add grated coconut, salt and lemon juice.
9. Take it off the flame.
10. Mix this in steaming hot aromatic rice.
11. Garnish it with a few leaves of coriander and a split green chilli.
12. Serve it with raitha.

Recipe courtesy of Lavanya