Orange Pulav

Ingredients :

• Basmathi rice - 1 cup
• Ripe oranges - 3 [ loose jacketed ]
• Green grapes - 1 / 4 cup [ seedless ]
• Cashewnuts - 1 handful
• Coconut milk - 1 cup
• Cardamoms - 2
• Cinamon - 1 inch piece
• Bay leaf - 1
• Orange colour - a pinch
• Onions - 2 [ cut in to lenth wise ]
• Green chillies - 4 to 5 [ slit ]
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 / 2 tsp
• Ghee or oil - 4 tbl sps
• Coriander leaves - little

Method :

Wash and soak rice for 30 minutes. Cut onions and green chillies lengthwise. Peel one orange and keep separately. Take juice from other two oranges and strain to remove seeds. Heat ghee or oil in pressure pan and fry gram masala spices, green chillies and then onion. Add ginger garlic paste and rice. Fry for 2 minutes. Mix orange juice with coconut milk and make it up as two cups with enough water. Boil this separately and pour over rice with enough salt, and colour. Mix gently, reduce flame, and pressure cook for 10 minutes. After removing from gas, mix fried cashewnuts, orange segments, grapes and cut coriander leaves. Serve with mixed vegetable raitha.