Vegetable Pulao

1. Chopped vegetables like carrot, beans, potato, cauliflower etc – 1 cup
2. Basmati white rice – 3 cups
3. Onion – 1 medium size
4. Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
5. Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
6. Cinnamon – 1 small
7. Cardamom – 2
8. Garlic – 3 flakes
9. Clove – 2
10. Cashew – 5 to 6
11. Ghee – 3 tsp
12. Salt to taste
13. Chopped coriander leaves for garnishing
14. Roasted cashews – 2 tsp
    

Method

1. Cook the vegetables and keep aside
2. Heat the ghee in a pan and add ginger garlic paste,cumin seed,cardamoms, cinnamon, cloves, cashews and chopped onions for about a minute
3. Add rice and 5 cups of water and salt
4. Close the lid and cook ( about 15 minutes in medium flame)
5. Add cooked vegetables and mix. garnish with coriander leaves and cashews
6. Serve hot with vegetable raitha

Another Method – you can fry the vegetables along with the ingredients mentioned in method 2 and cook along with the rice as mentioned in method 3 onwards.