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Ingredients

Basmati rice	Take one cup in a measuring cup.
Snap beans	About 200 gm (cut into small pieces).
Carrots	200 gm (cut into small pieces).
Peas	200 gm.
Cashew	10 pieces(optional).
Raisins	10 pieces.
Sugar	According to taste.
Salt	According to taste.
Cinnamon sticks	4/5.
Cardamom	5/6.
Cloves	4/5.
Oil	4 tbsp.
Ghee	6 tbsp.

Preparation

• Make rice in a saucepan and when you cook rice cook it in low heat so that it does not become sticky and don't use pressure cooker.
• Now in a frying pan put 4 tbsp oil and 2 tbsp ghee and heat, then put cinnamon sticks, cardamom, cloves and fry on medium- high heat, when all these things becomes light brown give carrots, beans and peas and stir for 2 mins on medium heat.
• Then give salt and keep stirring for 4 mins and then keep it on low-medium heat for boiling.
• When its fully cooked it should be dried up too, now put in rice and stir.
• Keep on strring and give little sugar and little bit salt according to taste, after about 2 mins put raisins and cashews and stir again for like 5 mins on low heat and then turn the stove off.
• Before serving warm it up and then put the rest 4 tbsp of ghee and spread over the rice.

Tips:

When somebody is coming to your house and you want to serve plain rice you can follow a simple method, cook rice in a saucepan, first give water and little oil and little salt on the saucepan and when the water gets boiled put in the rice and cook. This will give rice a very good look and it will taste a little bit different from the rice we cook everyday.

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Author's intro:
My name is Sumana, I'm a bengali , I like to cook especially bengali food because we have lots of mouth watering dishes and hope you like my recipe ...