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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. First, take your yogurt, and mix in your diced tomatoes. | 2. Next take your cardamom, cloves, cinnamon sticks, turmeric, garam masala, coriander powder, chili powder, chopped coriander, mint, and slit green chillies together, and add to yogurt. | 3. Then grind garlic, 4 green chillies and about an inch of garlic, and add to yogurt mixture. | 4. Allow yogurt mixture to sit for 2 hours (at least). | 5. Wash your rice and drain. | 6. Fry half the onions in a little ghee until translucent. | 7. Then add rice, stir until rice is coated in ghee and a bit fried (just a couple of mins). | 8. Add approx 5 cups water and Cook on low, low heat till 3/4 quarters done (some water will remain, but this will get soaked up and finish cooking while baking). | 9. Remove from heat. | 10. Cut your carrots and beans into thin strips, and break cauliflower into small florets. | 11. Heat 4 Tablespoons oil and a teaspoon ghee. | 12. To oil, add bay leaves, fennel, and star anise (DO NOT LEAVE OUT STAR ANISE PLEASE :-) ). | 13. Add the rest of your onion slices and fry until translucent. | 14. Then add veggies, stir until slightly crisp. | 15. Add yogurt mix, and salt to taste. | 16. Allow mixture to cook over medium heat until it cooks down and thickens to a spoon able mixture. | 17. Now you can preheat your oven to 400°F. | 18. Spread some rice in a large aluminum baking pan, then spread some of the yogurt mix over. | 19. Repeat by topping with rice, and then yogurt mixture, until both are used up. | 20. Now cover pan tightly with foil wrap making sure edges are sealed. | 21. Bake for 30 minutes. | 22. Serve with Raita! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
yogurt	2	cups		298.9	22.834	17.003	15.925
tomato	6		diced	132.84	28.7082	6.4944	1.476
cardamom pod	7			-	-	-	-
clove	6	cloves		-	-	-	-
cinnamon	6			-	-	-	-
star anise	1			-	-	-	-
turmeric	1 1/2	1/2		14.04	3.0213	0.4356	0.1462
garam masala	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
coriander powder	2	teaspoons		10.728	1.9796	0.4453	0.6397
red chili powder	2/3	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cilantro	1	bunch	chopped	-	-	-	-
mint leaf	1	bunch		-	-	-	-
green chilies	5			485.7571	120.0	0.0	0.0
garlic clove	6			-	-	-	-
green chilies	4			485.7571	120.0	0.0	0.0
ginger	1	inch		-	-	-	-
onion	2		sliced	120.0	28.02	3.3	0.3
carrot				-	-	-	-
green bean				-	-	-	-
cauliflower				-	-	-	-
basmati rice	2 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.