Ghee rice with carrots, peas and coconut milk

This is a must try recipe. The aroma of zeera rice cooking in ghee with sweet carrots and peas will test your patience until done to grab a bite. 

Thanks to my sister for asking us to celebrate her birthday this year at home with home cooked meals instead of our regular practise to dine out and cut a cake. Isn't it so mundane? So for our homely treat we started with ghee rice along with mushroom-panner gravy and finished with shahi Tukda for dessert. Thanks to my Amma (mom) and brother in laws for their help in chopping  veggies and  being a caretaker of the day for my lil son. Since me and sis had a task of putting together a meal for 8 of us:). 

Our family thoroughly enjoyed this recipe and compliments poured in. So will your family;) try and let us know.  

Happy Birthday my lovely sis🍰💐

Ingredients:   

1 kg jeera rice ( must for this recipe. You can get this in all supermarkets)

  Ghee : 7-8 tsp 

 1 cup each of green peas and finely chopped carrots

7-8 cups of thick coconut milk

Bay leaves 2, 1 tsp of sounf, 2-3 cinnamon sticks and 1/2 lemon

4-5 slit green chillies

Method: 

Firstly, smear the pressure cooker with ghee reaching to all sides so that the rice soaks in ghee flavour. 

Heat ghee, add all dry spices with green chillies and sauté for a minute 

 

Add carrots, peas and sauté well

 

In goes thoroughly washed rice which needs to be sautéed for about 5 mins in low flame

Mix the rice well to see this blissful colour combination

After sautéing the rice, add 8 cups of thick coconut milk and 4 cups of plain water. Note : my cup measures 6 cups of rice for 1 kg. so I need 12 cups of water to cook the same. Rice cooks in 1:2 ratio. Adjust water level accordingly.fool proof method to do rice is to use the same cup for measuring rice and water you will never go wrong:)

Time to add salt according to your taste. I have used 3 tsp if rock salt here. Squeeze juice of half lime and let it boil. Once it starts to boil, close the lid and cook for only one whistle else rice will become mushy

Allow the cooker to cool and steam to escape before you open it. Then explodes the tempting 

your kitchen.

Aromatic ghee rice is ready to serve.

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