Vegetable Rice

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This is one of the many ways you could prepare vegetable rice.

Ingredients

Vegetables like carrots, beans, potatoes - peeled, cut into 2″ long pieces
Peas
Onions
Tomatoes
Salt
Rice
Cardamom
Cloves
Cinnamon
Poppy seeds
Green chillies
Ginger-garlic paste.
Oil

Get Cooking!

1. Soak the poppy seeds in warm water for a while.
2. Grind the poppy seeds with green chillies, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and set the masala aside.
3.Wash the rice and set aside in a colander for half hour to drain the water.
4. Sauté the onions in some oil.
5. When it becomes golden brown, add some ginger-garlic paste. Cook for a while.
6. Add the cut vegetables and sauté.
7. Then add the rice and toss it around.
8. Add the ground masala.
9. Pour in enough water to cook the rice. Add a couple of cut tomatoes, salt. mix in well.
10. Open cook till the rice is done, stirring occasionally to reduce browning up of the rice or cook in an electric cooker, stirring occasionally. Pressure cooking the rice makes it too mushy.

Tips

Instead of adding the cardamom, cinnamon and cloves to the ground masala, you could sauté it before and the add the onions.

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