Ingredients:

• 1 cup – basmati Rice
• 2 – Clove
• 1 – Cardamom
• 1/2 tsp – Cumin seeds
• 1 – Carrot
• Beans – a few
• 1 – Potato
• 1 – handful peas
• 1 – Onion
• 2 – Green chilli
• 2 tbsp – oil
• 1 tsp – Ghee
• Cabbage raita:
• Cabbage, finely chopped – 1 handful
• Capsicum cut into cubes – a few
• 1 – onion, sliced thinly.

Method:

1. Soak basmati rice in 1.5 cups of water for 10 mins
2. Cut the vegetables except peas into tiny pieces. Cut the onions into long thin strips.
3. Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker and splutter cumin and all the spices one by one. When it splutters add chillies and onions. Fry till the onions turns brown.
4. Then add the chopped vegetables and saute for few minutes.
5. Add the soaked rice keeping the water aside. Fry this for 2 mins.
6. Then add the water used for soaking the rice. Add salt and when the water starts boiling, close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for 2 whistles.
7. Cabbage raita :
8. Heat oil in a kadai and add, cabbage and capsicum.
9. Fry for 2 mins. Transfer it to a bowl. Then add the chopped onions.
10. Add curd before serving and garnish with coarsely grounded cumin powder.
11. Recipe courtesy: Jeyashri’s Kitchen