Wash and soak rice for half an hour

Coarsely crush ginger and garlic and keep aside

Chop the vegetables and onion

Dry roast the spices and grind to a smooth powder

Slit open the green chilli and keep aside

Add 2 tsp of ghee in pressure cooker

Add chopped onions and saute till its cooked well

Add coarse ginger garlic mixture and saute well

Add the chopped vegetables, rice and green peas and slit green chilli to the pressure cooker

Add coriander powder and pepper powder and the ground spices to the pressure cooker

Squeeze juice of lemon into the cooker

Add 3 cups of water to the cooker (depends on the rice used)

Close the pressure cook and Pressure cook for 3 whistles

After opening the pressure cooker top the Pulao with 1 tsp ghee and roasted cashews

Serve pulao hot with raita

Variations :

Add caramelised onion to the pulao by frying sliced onion in ghee

Instead of directly adding Basmati rice to the cooker, saute the rice in 2 tsp of ghee

Sauteed rice gives non sticky pulao