Edie’s 75th Birthday Rice Pulao with Vegetables

Ingredients

• 1-2 minced onions
• Olive oil
• Spices: curry, cumin, tumeric, cinnamon
• 1 cup rice
• 2 cups hot water
• 1/3 cut currants
• potatoes, peeled and cut into bite size pieces and slightly steamed
• carrots cut “julienne” style and slightly steamed
• assortment of vegetables: baby string beans, zucchini squash and yellow squash cut julienne style

Instructions

Brown the onions in olive oil

Add spices, fry then add rice

Brown the rice then add the water

Add the slightly steamed vegetables and currants

Cover and simmer 12-15 min until all liquid is absorbed

Serves 4