Pudhina Rice

Ingredients:

• 2 cups rice
• 1 tomato chopped
• 2 potatoes peeled and diced
• 1 tblspn ginger, garlic paste
• 1/2 tspn chilli powder
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 1 cinamon stick
• 2 cloves
• 1 cardamom crushed
• 1 tspn nutmeg powder
• 1 cup pudhina leaves chopped
• 4 green chillies chopped
• 1 tblspn ghee
• 1 tblspn oil

Method:

1. First, soak the rice in water for about half an hour. In the meanwhile blend pudhina and chillies to make a fine paste. Keep the paste aside.
2. Once soaked strain the water from the rice and spread it in a paste.
3. Now take a pan and heat ghee in it. Pour the soaked rice and saute for 5 min.
4. Remove the fried rice from the stove and keep aside.
5. Take a seperate pan and put 2 tblspn ghee in it.
6. Saute them for a while and then add the chopped onion. Fry until the onions turn brown. Now add the ginger garlic paste and saute for another 2 min.
7. Add the tomatoes and fry till they soften. In the tomato mix add potatoes and pudhina paste and saute for 8-10 min.
8. Now pour 3 cups of water in the mixture. Bring the water to boil and then add rice and salt.
9. Mix well and pressure cook. Remove from the flame after two whistles.