Jeweled vegetarian rice plov, or why you can't put a broken dish back together

Name: Jeweled vegetarian rice plov, or why you can't put a broken dish back together
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Cuisine: Eastern European
Ingredients: 2 cups of long-grain or basmati rice; 1 large onion; 2 carrots; 2- inch piece of ginger (or 2 tsps of dry ginger); 2 tsps ground coriander; 3 tsps salt (and more, to taste); 1/2 cup raisins; 1/2 cup dried apricots; 1/2 cup prunes (or any other dried fruit of your choice); 1/4 cup chopped almonds or pistachios; parsley or cilantro (optional)