Ghee rice

Ingredients

1. Rice (Jeeraka shala or biriyani) - 1 cup
2. Spices
1. Cardamom - 3
2. Cloves - 2
3. Cinnamon - 1 inch stick
4. Bay leaf - 1
5. Pepper pod - 1 tsp
3. Onion - 1 medium
4. Ghee - 2 tbsp
5. Cashew nuts - 8
6. Raisins - 8
7. Lime juice - 1 tsp
8. Water - 1.5 cup

Procedure

1. Clean the rice and soak for 15 minutes
2. Cut onion into thin pieces lengthwise
3. Heat ghee deep pan 
4. Fry raisins and remove and keep aside
5. Fry cashews and remove and keep aside
6. Fry half of the onions till it is brown. Remove and keep aside.
7. Fry the spices 
8. Add remaining onion and fry till raw smell goes away
9. Add rice to this and fry for 5 minutes.
10. In a pressure cooker, boil water and required salt.
11. Add the rice into the pressure cooker and cook the rice.
12. Add lime juice.
13. When the steam is completely released, open the cooker
14. Fluff the rice. Move into a serving bowl and add fried cashews, raisins and onion.
15. Yummy ghee rice is ready to be served with mutta curry or chicken curry or peas curry and raita