Vegetable Polau

Ingredients:

• 4 cups rice

• 5 cups diced vegetables(carrot, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, beans, capsicum)

• 1 and ½ cups onion paste

• 2 tablespoon ginger paste

• 2 bay leaf

• 4-5 cardamom

• 2 ‘’ cinnamon sticks

• 5-6 black pepper

• 5-6 green chillies sliced

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• ½ teaspoon tasting salt(optional)

• Salt to taste

• 1/3 cup oil

• 3 tablespoon ghee/ clarified butter

How to make:

1. Wash the rice and strain it.

2. Heat a heavy bottom sauce pan (if possible non stick one) and add 6 cups water, bay leaf, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper and 1 tablespoon salt.

3. Bring it to boiling point and add onion paste, ginger paste, sugar and oil.

4. Boil it and add rice and cook it 8 minutes high temperature under closed lid.

5. Add vegetables and chillies and cook 3 minutes on high.

6. Add tasting salt and ghee and cook it on low heat about 15-20 minutes under closed lid.

7. Serve vegetable polau with your favourite curry.