Veg Pulao

Clean and Cut vegetables and keep aside

In a big vessel/pan boil 4.5 cups water with enough salt,lime juice and oil.Add all spices and ghee/butter.Cover and Allow this to boil.When it starts boiling,add clean soaked rice gently.Cover and cook for 10 - 15 min.When 3/4 of the water evaporates,switch off the flame and close it with a lid.

By this time,cook those cut vegetables in another pan with lit water and salt.Or you can cook along with rice.

Cook the frozen peas in micro wave as per the direction in packet.(Cook for 1 min and check the peas and cook for 30 minutes more if needed.)

Gently stir the cooked rice and transfer half of the cooked rice to another bowl.Add cooked vegetables to the rice and form a layer.Then add the remaining rice.

Garnish with chopped cilantro and mint leaves(If you like its aroma,add few cilantro and mint leaves while cooking the rice iteslf.)

Serve hot with a good gravy curry(non veg or veg) and tomato- onion raita and Papad(optional).