Andhra Style Bhagarannam

Fried rice in telugu traditional style we say bhagarannam.....we love to have bhagarannam with chicken curry for Sunday's lunch.


Ingredients:
Basmathi Rice - 3 cups, cleaned and soaked for 30 minutes
Onions - 1 cut length wise
Green chilli's - 8 cut length wise
Carrots - 1/4 cup diced
Green Peas - 1/4 cup
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Shahjeera - 1 tsp
Cloves - 5
Cardamom - 4 gently crushed
Bay leaves - 3 
Anise - 3 crushed
Cinnamon - 1 crushed
Pudina leaves - 7 chopped
Oil - 1 tbsp
Butter - 2 tbsp
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp
Water - 4.5 cups


Cooking Method:
Heat oil and butter in a pan. Add green chilli's and the whole spices. Saute for 1 minute. 
Add onions to it and stir it until it turns soft. Add ginger garlic paste to it and stir it. Let it stay for a minute. Add carrots, green peas to it and mix well. Cover the pan with a lid and let it cook for few minutes until the veggi's becomes soft. Turn off the stove.
Clean the basmathi rice and take it into the rice cooker and add 4.5 cups of water.
Add all the above mixture to it. Turn on the rice cooker...I use electric cooker. After its 3/4 done mix the rice from the bottom so that the spices and the veggi's to do stay just on the top of the rice. After its done...add 2 tbsps of lemon juice and serve it.