Buttered rice recipe

Ingredients

• 4 cups Basmati rice (soak in water for 1 hour with 1 tablespoon vinegar)
• 4 cups plain water (add 1 teaspoon rose essence for aroma)
• 2 cups evaporated milk
• 6 small Bombay onions (slice thinly)
• 2 in. ginger (grated or pounded)
• 4 cloves garlic (grated or pounded)
• 1 stalk of coriander leaf and some mint leaf/pudina (chopped roughly)
• 2 pandan leaf (can be substituted with bay leaf)
• salt to taste
• spices in a pouch: cardamom,cloves and star anise.
• 2 in cinnamon (break into 2)