Fruity Rice Pilaf

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup Rice/chawal
• 4 slice Pineapple / Annanas (tinned)
• 2 kiwi fruit (chopped)
• 1 cup Red bell pepper /Shimla mirch (chopped)
• 1 cup Green bell pepper /shimla mirch (chopped)
• 3/4 cup Pomegranate pearls /Anar ka dana
• 1 tsp Chili flakes /Kuti hui laal mirch
• 4 tbsp Cooking Oil
• 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
• 1/2 inch Cinnamon /daalchini
• 3 Cloves / Lavang
• To Taste Salt / Namak

Instructions

1. 1

   Wash and soak rice in enough water for 20 minutes.

2. 2

   Chop pineapple in small pieces.

3. 3

   Heat a heavy bottom pan and add 2 tbsp of oil in it.

4. 4

   Now add cumin ,cinnamon and cloves in it.

5. 5

   When cumin start to crackle then add chopped pineapple pieces and give a nice stir.

6. 6

   Drain water from the soaked rice and then add in the pan.

7. 7

   Add 1 cup water and 1/2 cup pineapple juice (which we get in the tin of the pineapple slices) salt,chili flake and give it a boil.

8. 8

   Then cover the pan with a lid and simmer till done (don't over cook )

9. 9

   Remove from the flame and let it come to room temperature.

10. 10

    Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan and add the chopped bell peppers, pinch of salt and stir fry for about a minute.

11. 11

    Now add cooked rice in the stir fried bell peppers and mix gently.

12. 12

    Now Switch off the flame and then add pomegranate pearls and kiwi.

13. 13

    Mix gently and serve .