Dream Garnish Vegetable Pulao - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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
For garam masala powder
2 cms cinnamon sticks
2 cloves
2 cardamoms
nutmeg (small piece)
1/4 teaspoon anise seed (saunf or fennel seeds)
1/4 teaspoon cakeseed
For rice
1 cm cinnamon stick
1 clove
1 cardamom
8 tablespoons ghee
For garnishing
coriander leaves
mint leaf
cashews
raisins
bread, pieces

Preparation

Cut carrots into small cubes and beans into small pieces.
Boil the vegetables along with peas and drain the water when cooked.
Grind ginger, garlic and green chillies into a paste.
Fry this paste in a wok in a little oil.
When the raw smell is gone, add the chopped tomatoes and the powdered garam masala.
Fry well till the tomatoes are tender.
Add the cooked vegetables to it and salt to taste.
Mix well and keep aside.
Cut onions into thin slices.
Fry the onions, cashewnuts, raisins and bread pieces separately in ghee till golden brown.
Keep aside for garnishing.
Fry whole garam masala and rice in ghee for a minute.
Add double the amount of water and cook the rice.
Add salt to taste.
Spread a layer of half the rice in a serving bowl, topped with a layer of cooked vegetables.
Spread the rest of the rice.
Garnish with fried onions, cashews, raisins, bread pieces, chopped corriander and mint leaves.
Cover and keep for 5 minutes.
Mix well before serving.
Serve with papad and your favourite raita (I love onion-tomato raita and enjoy this with that).