Dream Garnish Vegetable Pulao

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 7
• 2 cups basmati rice
• 200 g carrots
• 100 g french beans
• 100 gm. green peas
• 2 medium tomatoes
• 5 cm ginger
• 2 cloves garlic
• 5 green chilies
• 2 medium onions
• 2 cms cinnamon sticks
• 2 cloves
• 2 cardamoms
• nutmeg (small piece)
• 1/4 teaspoon anise seed (saunf or fennel seeds)
• 1/4 teaspoon cakeseed
• 1 cm cinnamon stick
• 1 clove
• 1 cardamom
• 8 tablespoons ghee
• coriander leaves
• mint leaf
• cashews
• raisins
• bread, pieces

Recipe

• 1 cut carrots into small cubes and beans into small pieces.
• 2 boil the vegetables along with peas and drain the water when cooked.
• 3 grind ginger, garlic and green chillies into a paste.
• 4 fry this paste in a wok in a little oil.
• 5 when the raw smell is gone, add the chopped tomatoes and the powdered garam masala.
• 6 fry well till the tomatoes are tender.
• 7 add the cooked vegetables to it and salt to taste.
• 8 mix well and keep aside.
• 9 cut onions into thin slices.
• 10 fry the onions, cashewnuts, raisins and bread pieces separately in ghee till golden brown.
• 11 keep aside for garnishing.
• 12 fry whole garam masala and rice in ghee for a minute.
• 13 add double the amount of water and cook the rice.
• 14 add salt to taste.
• 15 spread a layer of half the rice in a serving bowl, topped with a layer of cooked vegetables.
• 16 spread the rest of the rice.
• 17 garnish with fried onions, cashews, raisins, bread pieces, chopped corriander and mint leaves.
• 18 cover and keep for 5 minutes.
• 19 mix well before serving.
• 20 serve with papad and your favourite raita (i love onion-tomato raita and enjoy this with that).