Tehri Pulao...this is a very tasty pahadi way of making flavoured rice. Learnt from a cookery show, turned out to be very delicious and has taken a very special place in my kitchen from then.

Ingredients
2 cups long grain basmati rice
1 potato chopped into squares, 1 cup cauliflower florets, 1 small cup green peas, 1 small cup carrot chopped into squares,1 small cup french beans broken roughly into pieces
2 table spoons of mustard oil
1 bay leaf
1 inch cinnamon
3 green cardamom
1 brown cardamom
10 pepper corns
3 cloves
2 finely chopped onions
1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
2 green chillies slit in the centre
1 tspn cumin pdr
1 tspn coriander pdr
1 tspn chilli pdr
1/4 cup water mixed with a pinch of asafoetida and 1 small spoon turmeric pdr
Salt to taste
1 cup curd
Juice of half a lime
Finely chopped coriander for garnishing

Method
In a pressure cooker take mustard oil, add 2 green cardamoms,2 cloves half the brown cardamom, bay leaf,let them leave aroma, then add onion, ginger garlic paste,slit green chilli, saute till brown, then add the remaining 1 green cardamom, 1 clove, half the brown cardamom, chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, water with asefoetida and turmeric, mix well, add the vegetable, the washed rice, salt to taste, the curd stir well, mix water according to need see that the rice does not become sticky when cooked.give it two whistles and after it is cooked drizzle little mustard oil on top and serve with garnished coriander. ,