Ingredients

• 1 cup - basmati rice
• 2 - clove
• 1 - cardamom
• 1/2 tsp - cumin seeds
• 1 - carrot
• Beans - a few
• 1 - potato
• 1 - handful peas
• 1 - onion
• 2 - green chilli
• 2 tbsp - oil
• 1 tsp - ghee
• Cabbage raita:
• Cabbage, finely chopped - 1 handful
• Capsicum cut into cubes - a few
• 1 - onion, sliced thinly.

How to Make Vegetable Rice and Cabbage Raitha

• Soak basmati rice in 1.5 cups of water for 10 mins
• Cut the vegetables except peas into tiny pieces. Cut the onions into long thin strips.
• Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker and splutter cumin and all the spices one by one. When it splutters add chillies and onions. Fry till the onions turns brown.
• Then add the chopped vegetables and saute for few minutes.
• Add the soaked rice keeping the water aside. Fry this for 2 mins.
• Then add the water used for soaking the rice. Add salt and when the water starts boiling, close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for 2 whistles.
• Cabbage raita :
• Heat oil in a kadai and add, cabbage and capsicum.
• Fry for 2 mins. Transfer it to a bowl. Then add the chopped onions.
• Add curd before serving and garnish with coarsely grounded cumin powder.
• Recipe courtesy: Jeyashri's Kitchen