Vegetable Fried Rice

Ingredients:

• 1 cup basmati rice
• finely chopped mixed vegetables - 1 cup (vegetables like carrot, cabbage, capsicum, green peas can be included)
  
• Ginger - 1 tsp finely chopped
• Garlic - 1 tsp fineley chopped
• Green Chillies - 3-4 nos chopped or slight length wise
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• Pattai - 1 inch
• salt - as needed
• Cashews - few
  

Method:

1. First, in a pressure cooker , heat a tsp of oil or ghee. Fry the pattai in the oil. Add the basmati rice, salt and fry for few seconds in oil.
   Then add 1.5 cups of water and close the lid and cook the rice as usual
2. In a pan, heat oil. Fry the cashews in it. Then add the green chillies, ginger and garlic and fry for few minutes.
3. Now add the chopped vegetables, salt and in high flame, fry them. Don't add water to cook the veggies. Fry them for 5 - 10 minutes. Make sure u don't burn them.
4. Now add the pepper powder and turn off the gas
5. Mix this fried veggies into the cooked rice and mix well.

Vegetable Fried Rice is ready...!! Serve them with a vegetable kuruma.