BRINJII RICE

Ingredients:

2 cups of basmati rice, soaked for 10 minutes.

4 tbs ghee
2 cinnamon sticks
3 cloves
2 stat anise
3 cardamom pods
½ tsp fennel seeds
3 brinji leaves

3 medium chopped onions
1 tbs ginger garlic paste
3 green chillies slit
¼ cup of mint leaves

¼ cup thick coconut milk
Salt to taste

6 cashew nuts roasted in ghee
Fresh cut coriander leaves

Method:
Drain the soaked rice, keep aside.
Heat 2 tbs of ghee in a pan, add in all the seasonings.
Fry them well, add in the chopped onions and fry till golden.
Add in the ginger garlic paste and sauté nicely.
Lastly add in the mint leaves and green chillies.
Stir nicely. Add in the drained rice and stir slowly without breaking the rice.

Now transfer the whole contents to a rice cooker.
Add in the ¼ cup of coconut milk, salt and 2 ¾ cups of water.
Stir slowly and switch on the rice cooker.
When the rice is fully cooked, slowly fluff up the rice gently.
Garnish with the roasted cashew nuts and cut coriander leaves
Serve with onion raitha.