Vegetable Pulav

Ingredients

Rice                             2 cups

Chopped Vegetables   ½ cup (beans, carrots or cauliflower, peas etc)

Ginger garlic paste      1 tbspn

Green chillies              3-4

Turmeric                      ½  tspn

Tomatoes                     1 large size

Garam masala              1 tspn

Mint leaves                  2-3 stems

Coriander leaves         handful

Bay leaves                   1

Cardamom                  2

Cinnamon                    1 small piece

Clove                           2

Vanaspathi/Dalda       3 tbspn

Method

Heat 3 tbspn vanaspati/dalda in cooking pot/pressure cooker

Add 2 each of cardamom and cloves, cinnamon stick and bay leaf

Now put the strained rice into the pot and stir until the rice turns white

Now add the chopped vegetables, slit green chillies and stir with a little salt and garam masala

Add 4 cups of boiling water adjust salt and stir well

Add chopped tomatoes and chopped mint and coriander leaves and cook with lid covered.

Serve vegetable pulav with raita, bhagara bhaingan/ mirchi ka salan