Vegetable Pullao

Ingredients

• 3 cups any vegetables chopped (Color variation is nice. Original recipe just used frozen. I used cueball zucchini, potato, carrot, japanese eggplant and peas because that's what I had on hand.)
• 1 onion
• 1 bay leaf
• 4 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 cardamom pods
• 1/4 teaspoon ground mace
• 1/2 inch sliced ginger (not chopt)
• 2 cloves garlic (not chopt)
• 1 1/2 Tbsp dried mint (or garnish with fresh at the end)
• 2 cups rice
• Salt to taste
• 2 2/3 cups water