Cashew Fried Rice

Ingredients:

• Cooked Basmati Rice : 2 cups
  
  
• Cashews roasted in ghee and split:  10
  
  
• Spring onions (scallion, salad onion, onion sticks, green shallots or green onion): 2 strings (finely chopped)
  
  
• Green chili: 1 (finely chopped)
  
  
• Ghee/Edible oil:  2 tsp
  
  
• Cinnamon:  1 stick
  
  
• Cloves: 1
  
  
• Bay leaves:  2
  
  
• Crushed Black pepper: 2 tsp

• Salt: to taste
  
  

Method of preparation:

• Heat ghee in a thick bottom pan, wok, iruppuch chatti,or kadai.

• Splutter cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves.

• Add spring onions, green chili

• Sauté for about two minutes.
  
  
• Add the cashews and the cooked rice, required salt, pepper and mix well.

• Serve hot with or without any desired gravy, curry, raitha, or kuzhambu.

(While purchasing spring onions, look for a bunch with crisp, green, firm leaves, and crisp, hard bulbs.)