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Vegetable pilau rice
Fruit and vegetables
thumb-sized piece of fresh
ginger
1 hot green
chilli
, finely chopped
100g/4oz
potato
, peeled and cut into 5mm/¼in dice
¼
carrot
, peeled and cut into 5mm/¼in dice
40g/1½oz
green beans
, cut into 5mm/¼in segments
Tins, packets and jars
basmati rice
, measured to the 450ml/1 pint level in a measuring jug
Cooking ingredients
1 tbsp
cardamom
seeds (removed from
cardamom
pods)
1 tsp black
peppercorns
1 tsp black
cumin
seeds (you can use regular
cumin
seeds if black aren't available)
1 tsp whole
cloves
1/3 of a whole
nutmeg
(you can break a whole
nutmeg
by placing it on a cloth and bashing it with a meat mallet or rolling pin)
a medium stick of
cinnamon
, about 5cm-8cm/2in-3in, broken up into 3-4 pieces
3 tbsp olive or groundnut oil
½ tsp brown
mustard seeds
½ tsp ground
turmeric
1 tsp
garam masala
1¼ tsp
salt
Other
570ml/1 pint water
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