Basmati Rice - 1 cupsoaked in water for about 30 min
Water - 4 cup
Cinnamon - 1 piece
Black Cardamom - 2
Green Cardamom - 3
Cloves- 2
Pepper corns- 1/2 tsp
Javitri - 1 small piece
Salt
Oil - 1/2 tspIf you add oil while boiling rice, the rice will not stick to each other
To fry vegetables:
Carrot - 1chopped
Green Peas - 1/3 cup
Beans - 1/4 cupchopped
Mint leaves - handful
Ghee - 1/2 tbsp
To fry Soya Chunks:
Soya Chunks - 50 gms
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam Masala powder - 1/4 tsp
Ginger- Garlic Paste - 1 tbspoptional
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Ghee - 1/2 tbsp
Salt
To fry onion:
Onion - 1 bigthinly sliced
Corn flour - 1 tbspoptional
Oil - to deep fry
To fry Dry Fruits :
Cashew nuts - 12broken
Raisins - 3 tbsp
Almonds - 2 tbspchopped
Ghee to fry - 1 tbsp
Instructions
In a plate mix onion and cornflour. (adding cornflour will make the onion crispy)
Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the onion till golden brown.
Take it out in the plate and set aside.
Boil 4 cup water with salt, oil and spices mentioned above.
Add rice and cook until 70% done.
Drain excess water from the rice and set aside.
Boil water by adding little salt in it.
Soak soya chunks for about 15 minutes in the boiled water.
After 15 minutes take them out and squeeze the excess water.
Heat 1/2 tbsp of ghee in a pan add soyabean to it.
Add turmeric Powder, garam Masala powder, Pepper powder, lemon juice and salt.
Shallow fry soya chunks for about 5 minutes.
Once done take it out in a plate and set aside.
In the same pan heat 1/2 tbsp of ghee again and add cumin seeds.
When the seeds starts spluttering add ginger-garlic paste and saute.
Saute till the raw smell goes.
Add carrot, beans, and peas and fry for few minutes.(Do not overcook)
Add chopped mint leaves and saute for a minute.
Once done set aside.
Now in a big kadahi or a pan heat 1 tbsp of ghee and fry cashew, almond and raisins till golden brown.
Add fried soya chunks, cooked vegetables and cooked rice and mix well.
At last add fried onion and mix well.
Serve hot with some spicy egg curry, paneer curry or the curry of your choice.
Notes
If you want to use less amount of ghee then you can simply fry dry fruits first by adding little ghee and then add soya chunks to it fry for few minutes and add vegetables to it. Once the vegetables gets cooked you can add rice and the fried onion.(Just to make it a healthy pulao)