Ingredients:
Basmati rice:2cups soaked for 10 minutes
Peas:10 pods
Carrot,beans,cauliflower,potatoes:2 cups[cut into small pieces]
Oil:1\3 cup
Salt:3 tsp
Lemon juice:1 tsp
Bay leaf:15 leaves
Pudhina;15 leaves
Onion:2 sliced
For the paste grind together:
7garlic flakes,1piece ginger,1tsp aniseed,1 tsp cumin seed,1tsp coriander powder,1stick cinnamon,2cloves,2cardamoms
Method:
Heat oil in a heavy bottom vessel.Add onions cook till brown.
Add vegetables and stir fry for 4 minutes.
Add the paste and stir fry for 3minutes.
Measure 4 cups of water to the fried vegetables,add salt,lemon juiceand pudhina.
When water boils add soaked and drained rice.
Cover the vessel with awell fittinglid. keep some heavy weight on the lid.
Slow down flame and cook till done.
Serve hot with raitha.
