Methi rice (Fenugreek rice)

One of my good friends gave me this recipe. I make this dish very often for my husband's lunch box.

Sometimes I use spinach instead of methi.

Ingredients:

2 bunches of Fenugreek leaves

1 cup of  basmati rice

1 small onion chopped

1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste

3 whole dried cloves

5 whole black pepper

1 bay leaf

1 and 1/2 teaspoon garam masala

2 tablespoon oil for seasoning

Salt to taste

2 and 1/2 cups of water

Preparation:
Pick the green leaves of fenugreek along with tender stems, wash and drain the water

Method:

1. Wash rice with water and drain

2. Add oil to a pan

3. Once the oil gets heated, add cloves, pepper and bay leaf

4. Cook for a minute until the ingredients change their color

5. Now add chopped onions and cook for about a minute

6. Add ginger-garlic paste, and cook until the onion turn pink, also make sure that ginger garlic paste doesn't get burnt
8. Add fenugreek leaves, garam masala and stir

9. Add rice and stir 

10. Now add water and salt

11. Cook the rice on medium flame without covering, until the water is evaporated

12. Now cover the pan and cook until the rice is soft enough to eat

Serve with raita or plain yogurt.

Variation: You can use chopped spinach instead of methi leaves