Mint - Cilantro Rice

Ingredients:

1 cup Basmati rice

1/2 cup Mint leaves

1/2 cup Cilantro

1/2 Yellow onion (Thinly sliced)

4 green chilli (small)

1tbsp ginger-garlic paste

1tsp Cumin seeds

2 Cloves

1 inch Cinnamon stick

1 Bay leaf

1 Anistar whole (optional)

1 1/4 cup Water

Salt

3tbsp Oil

How to:

• Soak the rice for 20 mins, drain'em and keep aside.
• Puree the mint, cilantro and green chilli in a blender along with 1/4 cup water and keep it aside.

• Heat oil in the pressure cooker, add cumin seeds through anistar and saute for a min.
• Then add onions, saute until tender and add ginger-garlic paste and cook until raw smell disappears.

• Now add the rice, fry for a min and pour the puree along with the remaining water and salt.

• Close the lid and pressure cook the rice until the first whistle and switch off.

Serve hot with onion raita.

Apple pickle

I bought Pink Lady apples, which are a bit sour and so i made pickle out of it. You can also use green apples.

Ingredients:

1 Apple (sour)

1tbsp Chilli powder

1/2tsp salt

For Tadka:

1/2tsp Mustard seeds

1/2tsp Urad dal

1/2tsp Cumin seeds

4-5 Curry leaves

3 dry red chilli (broken)

1 pinch Asafoetida

Oil

How to:

• Slice and remove the core from the apple and chop finely.

• Add the chilli powder and salt to the apple and mix well.

• Let it marinate for an hr.(salt oozes out water)

• Now heat oil in a pan, add the tadka ingredients, fry'em and mix well with the marinated apple.

Serve with curd rice or dal rice.

Mmm, Spicy!

Tip:

You can increase the quantity,add 1tsp vinegar and store it in an air tight container for upto a week.