Summer Pilau

One pot dish with ingredients easily found? Yes please! I found this recipe on Nigella Lawson’s website, promoting a new cookbook by Meera Sodha. If this recipe is any indication of the rest of the book, it’s well worth a slot on your bookshelf.

Summer Pilau

by Meera Sodha
"East: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing"

INGREDIENTS
Serves: 4 as a main

350 grams basmati rice
2 tbsp rapeseed oil
12 fresh curry leaves
1 cinnamon stick
1 large onion (finely sliced)
4 cloves of garlic (crushed)
1 green finger chilli (finely sliced)
50 grams unsalted cashew nuts (about half a cup)
400 grams baby plum tomatoes (halved)
1 x 400 millilitres tin of coconut milk
200 millilitres of water
1 3/4 tsp salt