For Masala Paste:
4 ~ 5 Cardamom
4 ~ 5 Cloves
2 ~ 3 Pieces of Cinnamon
2 ~ 3 Green chilly
2 ~ 4 Garlic
1 inch Ginger
Other Ingredients:
1 Cup Basmati Rice
2 Onion
2 Cups Mixed veg. (Peas, cauliflower, beans and carrot)
Salt
100 Gms. Ghee or Oil
2 Spoons Cumin Seeds.
Cut vegetables. Wash rice and drain the water and keep aside. Put cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, garlic and green chilly in a mixer grinder and grind like a paste.
Pour some ghee in a pan and fry onion and the grind paste.
Fry vegetables in ghee and keep aside.
Fry rice and cumin seeds in ghee
Put all of them i.e. masala paste, vegetables and rice in a Electric Cooker.
Add salt and mix well. Fry cashew nuts and add them in the cooker.
Pour 2 and a 1/2 cups of water and switch on the cooker.
Use after the pulov is ready.
Serve with raitha.