Cilantro Rice

This is one of the Lunch box Recipe. Cilantro is Iron rich food.I got this recipe from my mother- in-law.She used to prepare this recipe for my husband .In his child hood days it was his favorite recipe.Try This recipe

at home and bring back Your school days Memories Back. Enjoy it with semi-dry Chicken or potato curry .

Ingredients:

• Basmati Rice -2 cups
• Cilantro - 2 bunches
• Onion - 1 small
•  Cloves -3
• Fennel seeds -1 tsp
• Cinnamon sticks -1 inch
•  Ginger -  lemon size
•  Garlic -12 pods
• Green Chillies-4 to 5
• Bay leaves -2
• Salt to taste.
• Oil  -2 tsp

Method:

1. Take the cilantro bunch and clean only the leave part and not the stem.Collect all the leaves and Keep it aside
2. Wash and grind coriander leaves,ginger,garlic,fennel seeds,two cloves and one piece of cinnamon stick into a smooth paste.
3. In a pressure cooker add  basmati rice and 11/2 cup of water and few drops of olive oil in it and pressure cook it for 1 whistle.
4. When the pressure cooker cools down , transfer the rice onto a  plate and spread evenly and keep it aside.
5. Heat oil in a pan  and add mustard in it. When the mustard sputters  and then add two Bay leaves ,onions and Green chillies  and fry till translucent.
6. Now add  the ground paste and saute for few minutes till the raw smell goes . Then add the Cooked Basmati Rice and mix well.
7. Now Close the Lid and simmer it for few minutes, so that  and masala and the rice will mix together evenly .
8. At last check for salt and switch of the flame.
9. Serve it with Semi dry chicken ,Potato curries and also with rita..

Notes:
Use only the clintro leaves to avoid the bitter taste of the stem.
You can add some more ghee to make it more rich.
You can add some fried cashew nuts.