Hariyali pulav

Ingredients:

pudina/ mint leaves - 1/2 bunch
Spinach - 1 bunch
coriander leaves/parsley - 1/2 bunch
onion - 2
green chillies - 3-4
rice - 2 cups
water - 4 cups
ghee - 1tbspn
oil- 1 tbspn
cashewnuts - 5

masala

garlic - 12 pods
ginger - small 1 ( if grated around 1 tbspn)
star anise- 1
bay leaf -2
cinnamon - 1

Procedure :

grind the ginger and garlic and keep it aside. can use ginger garlic ready made paste instead but nothing like homemade.

Cut the onions into thin long pieces.

wash all the leaves and grind them.

Take a handi /wok add 1 tbspn oil and 1/2 tbspn ghee. Add the masala items, green chillies and fry it for 1/2 minute. add onions and fry it for a minute till translucent. add the ginger garlic paste and fry it.

add the green pulp and cook it for 2-3 minutes until the raw smell of leaves are gone.
add 1 tspn of salt and rice . add water as per the rice and cook it until done.it normally takes 15 minutes. extend if required.

The water to be added changes based on the rice variety. Generally for most on indian rice 1 rice: 2 water ratio is used unless its basmati rice its 1: 1 ratio.

This is one pot rice. Can be made in handi or in rice cooker or pressure cooker. If using rice cooker do the frying in a pan and shift the contents when adding the rice.