Spanish Rice

Ingredients

Basmati rice : 2 cups
Onion : 1
Tomato : 1
Capsicum : 1
Curd : 1/4 cup
Salt : as needed
Oil : 4 tbsp
Spring onions (cut) : ¼ cup


For Seasoning

Cloves : 2
Bark of cloves : 2 piece
Cardamom : 2

To grind

Dried red chilli : 12
Garlic : 8 cloves

Method

Wash basmati rice let it soak in water for sometime and cook.
Cut vegetable into thin slices.
In a dry frying pan fry redchilli.
Grind redchilli and garlic in a mixie.
Take oil in a frying pan and add the seasoning ingredients.
Add onion and fry.
Add the ground paste and fry for 5 minutes.
Add salt, capsicum and fry for 2 minutes.
Add tomato and curd and fry for 3 minutes.
Add cooked rice, cut spring onions.
Mix well and serve when hot.


This recipe is taken from the book "Saadam Vagaigal" by Revathi Shanmugam published by Kannadhasan Pathippagam