Aromatic Veggie Rice
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
20 min.
Preparation
ready in 50 min.
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Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 4 Tbsps Oil
- 2 ½ Tbsps butter
- 2 cloves garlic cloves (chopped)
- 2 carrots (finely diced)
- 1 bunch scallions (diced)
- 1 medium Eggplant (diced)
- 3 small Zucchini (diced)
- 2 fresh chili peppers (diced)
- 6 dried Apricot (diced)
- 1 ⅔ cups Basmati rice
- salt
- freshly ground peppers
- Spices (cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, allspice and mace, a good pinch of each)
- 1 Orange (Juice and grated rind)
- 2 ½ cups vegetable stock
- 2 Tbsps Pistachio (roughly chopped)
- 2 Tbsps almonds (roughly chopped)
- Oil (for toasting the nuts)
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the oil and butter in a roasting tin and saute the vegetables and apricots one after the other.
2.
Add the rice and sweat all together for a short time. Add the spices, orange juice and rind and the vegetable stock.
3.
Bring to the boil, cover and cook very gently over a low heat for about 20 minutes, until the liquid has been absorbed.
4.
Toast the pistachios and almonds in a little oil, fluff the pilau with a fork and sprinkle with the nuts.
5.
Mix the yoghurt with the chopped mint leaves and hand separately.
