Vegetable rice with spices

Ingredients:

150 g Basmati rice – wash rice and soak it for 20 minutes

1 large red onion – sliced

2-3 vegetable of your choice (I used zucchini & frozen peas in recipe video)

4 small bay leaves

½ cinnamon stick

2 teaspoons cumin seeds

1.5 teaspoon fennel seeds

8 cloves – coarsely crushed in a mortar

12 black peppercorns – coarsely crushed in a mortar

5 cardamom pods – keep only the seeds and coarsely crush them in a mortar

2 tablespoons raisins

A mix of nuts of your choice (eg. almonds & cashews)

2 tsp oil/ ghee (for non-vegans)

• Heat the oil in a saucepan. Add bay leaves, cinnamon, fennel and cumin seeds. Saute for about 30 seconds. The cumin & fennel seeds will start to sizzle. The oil should be really hot before adding the spices so that they sizzle immediately!
• Then add cloves, black pepper, cardamom, and fry for 2-3 minutes. We are tempering ( a process I explained in my article on spices link here) so that all the spices give out their aromas & flavours.
• Now add onions and fry them till slightly caramelised.
• Add raisins and chopped nuts. Fry for 2-3 minutes. In the meanwhile, drain the water from the basmati rice & keep aside.
• Now add the soaked rice to the saucepan.
• Fry the rice for about 3-5 minutes.
• Add vegetables of your choice ( I have used zucchini & frozen peas in the recipe video- link here).
• Add 300 ml of water & salt as per taste.
• Bring it to boil, reduce heat and cook for 7 minutes or till the rice is done!
• Serve with chutney (sauce) made out of fresh coriander, coconut yoghurt & fresh ginger (recipe towards the end of video).

I hope that you will enjoy this recipe as much as I do! It’s simple, healthy and delicious.

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About the author:

Prachi is an ayurvedic practitioner although she prefers the word healer. Ayurveda, the Indian traditional medicine, is a philosophy of life strongly rooted in non-religious spirituality. Her aim as a healer is to guide the person in need using tools such as nutrition, lifestyle, spiritual practices-yoga, pranayama, meditation, manual treatments-massages & herbs. These tools allow the person to comprehend their own physical body, the mind & the soul to live a meaningful, healthy and fulfilling life. Visit her website 

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