Cut onion into long thin slices.

Chop the tomatoes.

Grind garlic, ginger and chilli together and make it to a smooth paste.

Keep aside coconut milk ready.

In a cooker or in a vessel pour the amount of oil mentioned.

First put cardamom, cinnamon and cloves. Stir it gently when it smells add the ginger, garlic and chilli paste.

Allow it to fry for 3 min in low flame. Then add slice onions. Allow it to fry till the oil separates from it.

Then add tomatoes and completely washed shrimp.

Add salt and red chilli powder. Mix it well.

Add mint leaves.

Add coconut milk.

Then add basmati rice.

If you are using cooker allow it for 3 whistles. If you are using vessel allow it cook till it get done.

Serve hot along with raitha.