Mexican rice

Ingredients:

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• Basmati rice - 1 cup
• Onion - 1 large
• Capsicum - 1 large
• Tomato - 3 medium
• Kashmirilal chilli powder - 1 1/2 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tsp

Method:

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• Soak rice in water for 2 hours.
• Strain the water using a strainer.
• Chop onions,capsicum and tomatoes into small pieces.
• Heat tava,add 1 tsp of oil and fry onions well.
• When onions turn light brown ,add the soaked rice and saute well till water evaporates from the grains.
• Add chilli powder, salt amd mix well.
• Add 1 cup of water(rice:water=1:1) and pressure cook.(Just one whistle on a high flame and switch off after 5 min)
• Note:-Electric cooker is preferable if you have one.
• In the tava,add ghee,capsicum and saute well.
• Add tomatoes and saute well till raw smell goes off.
• Pour it over cooked rice and mix well.

Serve hot with onion raitha.