Peas and Carrot Rice

This is  an easy PEASy recipe .A tasty quick fix .Something you could  make when you  don’t want to go through the long process of making a biriyani but u still w ant to be enamoured by the  delight of flavoured rice .Just boil the peas and chop the carrots add the garam masala and spices and there you are ready with some flavoured colourful good looking rice.

Well I had frozen peas in my freezer and I wanted to make something with it. So I decided to welcome Aniket with the carrot peas rice when he came back from playschool. Aniket loves carrots so he would eat the carrots first when I fed him his afternoon meal .Then he meticulously picked out the peas and ate it,last came the rice.....

As for me what more do I want…..flavoured  rice with a favourite salad….yummy lunch isn’t  it? I loved it…..

From:You Too can Cook

Ingredients

Basmathi-1 ½ cups

Water-21/2 cups

Onions-1 sliced long

Carrots-2 chopped into cubes

Peas-1/2 cup

Green chilli-1

Star anise - 1 

Cinnamon stick - 1 inch long stick  

Bay leaf - 1 

Peppercorns - 1/4 spoon (Optional) 

Cumin seeds - 1/4 spoon 

Fennel seeds - 1/4 spoon 

Salt - As per taste 

Ghee /Dalda- 4 to 5 spoons 

Method

Par boil the chopped carrots.

Boil water and add frozen peas .Cook till peas is soft.

Soak rice for 15 minutes and wash well(3 times)

Take dalda or ghee/clarified butter and sauté fennel seeds, cumin seeds ,peppercorns, bay leaf, star anise, cinnamon sticks.

Add onions sliced. Saute till translucent.

Add greenchilli, peas and carrot chopped.

Add rice and fry.

Add water and close lid of pressure cooker without weight.

Cook in high flame till steam comes

Lower flame and cook for a minute or two

Switch off gas,put on weight  and allow to cool for 10 minutes

Use a fork to mix the rice after opening the pressure cooker.

Serve hot.