channa Rice

This was invented by me...once i had hell lot of white channa @ home... didnt know what to do... here goes...


ingredients

1/2 kg white channa
3 nos tomatoes medium size
3 nos onions medium size
chillies as per your taste
1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
5/6 nos curry leaves
5/6 nos coriander leaves
1/2 kg briyani rice
100gms ghee
salt to taste
1 nos bay leaf
1,2 nos patta
2 nos cardamom
2 nos cloves
2 nos star anise
few cashews


method

soak the channa the day before so that it would be easy to cook for the rice...
dice all the vegetables. grind all the dry spices, make it paste.
in a pan put some ghee, add ginger garlic paste and the spices paste saute
add the diced vegetables and saute till done. add the channa and salt to it. cover and keep for a while so that the masala gets into it.

fry the rice with ghee and cashews, and boil it and make rice.

after the channa is done add it along with the rice..
decorate it with curry leaves & coriander leaves
serve it with khachumer salad