Broccoli Rice

Broccoli is said to be the most healthiest vegetable yet we eat it very less . We use it very rarely in our indian cooking . To make our kids and ourselves eat more of this veggie we have to adapt it into our cooking. A delicious and healthy recipe and very quick for the working people out there..

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1
Onion - 1
green chillies - 3
garlic - 4 pods
cashewnuts - 3 tbspn or as per wish
rice - 1 cup
water  for cooking rice
oil - 2 tbspn

turmeric - 1/2 tspn
salt to taste
coriander powder - 1 tbspn
garam masala - 1/2 tbspn

Procedure:

Cook the rice in 1 cup rice: 2 cup water ratio and keep aside.
If using basmati rice then cook with 1 cup basmati rice: 1/2 cup water ratio.
Once the rice is cooked let it cool down so that it dosent turn sticky.

Parallely the broccoli can be cooked.

Slit the green chillies and keep aside. Smash the garlic and remove the peel.
Cut onions into thin slices .
Clean the broccoli and remove the florets from the bunch.
Chop the broccoli finely alternatively you can grate broccoli to get fine pieces .

In a wok add oil. Once heated add green chillies, garlic and cashwes and fry it.
Once the onion is transluscent add broccoli.
add 1 tspn of salt and mix it well and cook with closed lid for 15 mins.
Keep sauteing it every 5 minutes.

Once the broccoli is cooked add turmeric, coriander powder and garam masala and mix it well.
add the cooked rice and salt and mix well.
keep frying the rice for 10 minutes.

You can use ketchup to eat along with the rice.