Mixed vegetable Rice

Ingredients

Basmathi rice - 1 cup

Carrot, Beans, Green Peas, Cauliflower, potato - 1 cup

Shallots - 5-6 (slice into pieces)

Tomato - 1 (small)

Green chilly - 3 (slit into lenghtwise)

Cinnamon - 1

Star anise -1

Cardamon - 2

Bay leaf - 2

Cloves - 2

Curry leaves - few

Coriander - few

Mint leaves - few

Oil - 2 teaspoons

Salt as required

Method

Wash the rice and soak with 2 cup of water for 10 minutes.

In a pressure cooker add oil. When it is warm add bay leaf, cinnamon, star anise, cardamon, cloves, green chilly and fry for a while. Then add shallots and fry for a while. Add tomato and fry for 2 minutes. Mix the vegetables with the contents and fry for 1 minute. Add the soak rice with the water and add coriander, curry leaves, mint and salt. Cover the pressure cooker and bring to cook for 10 - 12 minutes without whistle. Remove it from the stove and ready to eat.

PAROTA

Ingredients
maida - 1 kg
egg - 2
ghee - 3 to 4 tablespoons
milk - 500 ml
soda - a pinch
sugar - 2 tablespoons
salt - as per taste
oil - 1/2 litre

Method
Boil the milk. When it is in lukewarm add salt, sugar, soda and mix it well.
In a vessel put the flour and add ghee and mix it well. Then add egg and mix it well. Then add milk little by little and make a dough. No need to beat. Then pour 10 tablespoons of oil and mix it with the dough. Keep it for 8 hrs.

Then make a round with your thumb and pointing fingers. Take a huge quantity of dough and keep it in your palm and press it in the round and make small small balls. keep it aside.

Grease the wooden chopping board with oil and spread the balls with poori stick very thin till it tear. Then hold one end and make a round and keep it aside.

Pour some oil on it. Spread the round with the poori stick in parota size. Heat the tawa and grease with oil. Put the parota on the tawa and pour a tablespoon of oil on it. Turn it over
and cook the other side also. Once it was cooked u can remove and beat from the side. So that it will be soft. Tasty parota is ready.