Bagara rice

Ingredients:
1 cup of basmati rice
2 cups of water
2 tbsp of green peas
2 tbsp of curry leaves
1/2 tsp of garlic & ginger paste
2 tbsp of oil
1/2 of medium onion
cinnamon -2 small sticks
cloves-2
bay leaves-2
cardamom -2
1/2 tsp of black cumin
3 green chillies
1/2 cup of mint(optional)
salt to taste

Procedure:
1)Wash rice and soak it for 30 min.
2)Add oil to hot pan, then add black cumin, cloves, bay leaves, cinnamon and cardamom. Fry them for a minute then add green chillies, onion and curry leaves.
3)Saute until the onions are transparent. Add garlic & ginger paste, mint leaves, peas and salt.
4)Fry them till the garlic ginger leaves its raw smell. Add water to the mixture and bring it to boil.
5)Add the soaked rice to the mixture and cook it.
(If u r cooking in the rice cooker, then add 1 cup of rice and 2 cups of water. Set it on a cook mode, then in an other pan prepare the mixture in the same procedure(as shown above) and add to the rice cooker.)
 This is a mild flavoured rice so it goes well with any curry, But i like to serve this rice with mutton or chicken curry.