Tawa Vegetable Rice & Scrumptious Blog Award

This is a very special rice as this is my own recipe very dear to me which was the result of my own kitchen experiments, well my family loved it actually and its very nice with mild Indian flavours in it ........goes very well with Kurma and raita.

Ingredients

For rice

1 tsp oil

2 green cardamom

3 cloves

1 stick cinnamon

1 bay leaf

2 tbsp melted butter

salt to taste

For the masala

200 gms fresh mushroom cut into quarter

1 capsicum cut into small cubes

1 onion finely chopped

1 tomato finely chopped

1 tsp ginger-garlic paste

2 dry red chillies

1 tsp whole coriander seeds

5-6 methi seeds

1 tsp crushed kasoori methi

salt to taste

2 tbsp oil or butter

Method

• Heat water in a pan, when it starts boiling add green cardamom,cinnamon,bay leaf,cloves,salt and 1 tsp oil and rice and cook it till 3/4th done


• Drain it and allow it to cool, then mix 2 tbsp melted butter and salt and then keep it aside


• Soak dry red chillies in water for 10 minutes,drain it and grind it along with coriander seeds with little water to a fine paste


• In a pan, add oil or butter, add methi seeds, fry it for 1 minute and then add ginger-garlic paste,chilli-coriander seeds paste and fry for 2-3 minutes till the raw smell goes off


• Add onion and fry till translucent and golden brown, and then add tomato and fry till it gets mashed, remove it from the gas and then keep aside


• In another pan add 2 tsp oil, add capsicum and fry for 1-2 minutes and then add mushrooms and fry for 2-3 minutes till tender and then add the tomato maslala , kasoori methi,salt and fry for 1-2 minutes


• Switch off the gas and allow it to cool, then add the rice and mix it well


• Switch on the gas again and cook it on a low flame for 10-15 minutes till all flavours get mixed well with the rice and then serve hot .

And now awards time !!!!

Sireesha of Mom's recipes has passed on this lovely award, thanks once again for this lovely award.

It is the Scrumptious Blog Award -a blog award given to sites who:

Inspire you Encourage You

May give Fabulous information

A great read

Has Scrumptious recipes

Any other reasons you can think of that make them Scrumptious!

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Share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.I would like to give this award to my following blogger friends

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