Vegetable Coconut Rice

It was Sunday morning, I thought of preparing something special for my hubby, so I got an idea of doing some changes to vegetable pulao recipe and here come up with Vegetable Coconut Rice, actually he liked it very much as it was less spicy but very tasty.

Preparation time: 20mins

Cooking time: 20mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

2 cups basmati or other long-grain white Rice

5 Green chillies

2 Bay leaves

4 Cloves

2 Cardamom

1 inch Cinnamon stick

3 tsp vegetable oil

2 tsp Ghee

1 tsp Fennel seeds

1 ½ cup grated fresh Coconut

½ cup 1 inch Chopped Carrot

½ cup Fresh green peas

1 cup chopped Potato cubes (peel the skin)

1 cup chopped Capsicum cubes

1 cup Cauliflower (medium sized pieces)

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1.     Wash rice and keep aside.

2.     Grind coconut, green chillies, cloves and cinnamon stick using water into fine paste.

3.      Keep a pressure cooker to heat, add oil and ghee as it heats up add fennel seeds, bay leaves and cardamom and sauté.

4.      Later add ground paste and fry for 2 mins, then add all the vegetables and let fry for 4 mins.

5.     Now add cleaned rice and required amount of water and salt.

6.     Close the lid and wait for 2 pressures.

7.     As cooker cools serve hot hot Vegetable Coconut Rice.