Ingredients

• 1 - small broccoli (cleaned and chopped)
• 1 cup - rice (soaked for 10 minutes and drained well)
• 1 - onion (medium size, chopped into thin slices)
• 1 - Bay leaf
• 1 tsp - ghee or butter
• 2-3 - tsp - oil
• 5-6 - green chillies
• 1 tsp - ginger paste
• 1 tsp - garlic paste
• salt to taste
• Powder the following: 2-3 - cloves
• 1" cinnamon stick
• 1 pod - cardamom

How to Make Broccoli Rice

• Heat oil in a vessel large enough to cook the rice.
• Drop the bay leaf in it.
• Add the sliced onions, ginger paste and garlic paste.
• Fry until the onions are soft and the raw smell of ginger-garlic paste is gone.
• Add the chopped broccoli, salt, green chillies and powdered masala of cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.
• Fry for about 5 minutes.
• Add ghee or butter.
• Add the rice and fry until it starts to turn brown.
• Add 2.5 cups of water to the rice and cover.
• Keep stirring in between, adding more water if the rice needs to cook for some more time.
• Serve the rice with onion, tomato and cucumber raita.