Coconut Milk Rice

Ingredients:

Basmati rice- 1 cup
cocnut milk(first and second milk)- 2 cups
onions- 1 (finely chopped)
tomatoes-1 (finely chopped)
green chilly- 4 to 5(according to your taste you may add more or less)
ginger and garlic paste- 2 tsps
bay leaves-1
cloves- 2 or 3
Pudina- 1 tbsp(finely chopped)
Ghee or oil- 1 tbsp
salt-to taste
(If you want you may add other mixed vegetables like beans, carrot, cauliflower. But then you need to add extra coconut milk accordingly)

Preparation:

Take a heavy bottomed pan or cooker. Heat it and add oil to it. As the oil gets heated up add bay leaves, cloves and green chillies. Fry for a few seconds and then add onions. Fry the onions till they become translucent, then add the ginger garlic paste to it. Fry till the smell leaves and add the chopped tomatoes and salt to it. As soon as the tomato gets fried, add the coconut milk. The coconut milk should heat but not boil. Add the rice to it and mix well and close cooker lid and allow it to cook for 10 to 20 minutes or until the rice gets cooked nicely. Remove from flame and then add the chopped pudina and coriander leaves before serving. (if you are adding vegetables you should fry them before adding coconut milk). This would taste amazingly well with onion and tomatoe raitha or mixed raitha.