Spicy vegetable pilau with cucumber raita - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
• 1 large onion, quartered and sliced
• thumb-sized piece ginger, chopped
• 1 cinnamon stick
• ½ tsp cumin seeds
• seeds from 8 cardamom pods
• 1 tsp ground turmeric
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 red chilli, halved, deseeded and sliced
• 1 large red pepper, deseeded and diced
• 50g freekeh
• 350ml vegetable stock (made with 2 tsp reduced-salt bouillon powder)
• 25g sultanas
• ½ pack coriander, chopped
• 40g cashew nuts
• 1 garlic clove
• 150ml pot bio-yogurt
• ¼ cucumber, grated
• 2 tbsp chopped mint