Masale bhat

Masale bhat is what we make at home when we run out of ideas for dinner. We generally refer it to as rice with masala rather than any type pulav... or biryani for that matter.

Ingredients

1. 2 cup basmati rice
2. 3 onions (medium, diced)
3. 2 potatoes (medium, diced)
4. Any other vegetable of your choice [tondli, french beans, carrot, green peas, cauliflower] (any 1, diced)
5. 10-12 garlic cloves(finely chopped)
6. 1/4 cup coriander(finely chopped)
7. 3 tsp kala masala
8. 1 tsp garam masala
9. 1/3 cup oil
10. salt to taste

<cooking time : 20-25 minutes>

Method

1. Wash the rice thoroughly. Give about 4 to 5 washes. Drain excess of water and keep aside, moist.
2. Heat oil in a vessel big enough to accommodate the cooked rice. 
3. When the oil is heated, add chopped garlic. Let it be for a minute.
4. Then add onions. Cook in oil until pink.
5. Add the potatoes and the vegetable of your choice.The idea behind only one vegetable is that the rice gets a mild flavor of that vegetable which we usually don't get in other types of rice.
6. Saute them well.
7. Now we add the spices, garam masala and kala masala to the oil itself and the rice also at the same time. Stir it well, keep stirring.
8. Kala masala - the key ingredient in this recipe - comes from vidharbha situated in the east of maharashtra. It is added in almost every recipe there.
9. After about 5 minutes, put 4-5 cups of water in it.
10. Now add salt and coriander, stir and let it cook well with lid closed.
11. Check occasionally to see whether the rice is coked. Let the water dry completely.
12. When the rice is done turn off the flame. Let it rest as it is for about 10 minutes, with lid closed. It assures that the rice is cooked well.

Your done!!

Enjoy your masale bhat with salad, papad and lemon pickle, even mix pickle will do.

:)