Vegie Rice

Ingredients:

• Cabbage, chopped – 1/2 

• Bell pepper, chopped – 1/4 

• Chick peas, soaked overnight – 1/4 cup 

• Long grain rice, rinsed – 1 cup

• Water – 2 cup

• Turmeric – 1/2 tsp

• Ghee – 3 tbsp

• Grated fresh ginger – 1 tbsp

• Cumin seeds – 2 tsp

• Dried red chili, crushed (opt) – 1 

• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp

• Hing – 1/4 tsp

• Ground black pepper – 1/2 tsp

• Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp

• Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp

• Salt – 1 1/2 tsp

• Butter

• Lemon juice or sour cream

 

Preparation:

1. Saute the vegetables in a little ghee or butter with turmeric. Add rice and stir a bit. Add water and salt and stir well. Bring to a boil and then simmer tightly covered for 20 min.

2. Make a chaunce in ghee with the ginger, cumin, chili, mustard. When mustard seeds are almost done popping, add hing, pepper, coriander and fenugreek and the rice. Turn off the heat and stir into the masala well.

3. Serve with a dollop of sour cream or a slice of lemon. Ingredients:

 

By Bhaktin Priya