Spicy Szechuan Veg Rice

Ingredients:

• Rice - Any variety but cook as seperate grains
• Chopped veg  - 1 1/4 cup  ( carrot, beans, capsicum,cabbage)
• Cooked green peas - 2 tblspn
• Onion - 1 nos ( chopped as thin slice)
• Garlic chopped - 1 tspn
• Ginger garlic paste - 11/4 tspn
• Red chilli paste - 2 tspn  ( see szechuan pasta recipe  for making red chilli paste )
• Salt - to taste
• Oil - 3 tblspn
• Butter or ghee - 1 tspn

For seasonings

• Cinnamon stick - 1 nos ( 2 inch )
• Cloves - 3 to 4 nos ( or use powder)

Dry powders:

• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tspn
• Kashmiri chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
• Garam masala - 1/2 tspn 

Method:

• Cook rice as seperate grains and keep aside
• Heat 2 tblspn oil in a kadai, add the seasonings then add garlic followed by onion saute it till onion turns light brown colour, then add ginger garlic paste
• When the raw smell goes add carrot, beans saute it for 3 mins, then add capsicum and cabbage 
• Keep in low flame for 2 to 3 mins or keep in high flame and stirr without taking hands
• Then add red chilli paste and dry powders except garam masala and saute till raw smell goes
• Add oil in between if it the mixture becomes dry
• Then add cooked green peas, garam masala and salt mix them well
• Now add cooked plain rice mix them well keep in fire for 2 to 3 mins, add ghee or butter and switch off the stove
• Serve hot the spicy szechuan veg rice if want  you can garnish it with coriander leaf or spring onion

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