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Here are 4 simple rice recipes for dinner
When You Spoke A Little Longer, Jeera Rice Was The Saviour
Ingredients:-
- 1/2 cup soaked basmati rice
- 2 tbsp ghee/oil
- 2 cardamoms
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 5 black peppercorns
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 star anise
- 2 tsp cumin
- 2 cloves
- 2 sliced green chillies
- 1 cup water
Method:-
- Wash 1/2 cup basmati rice and soak in water for about 30 minutes.
- Heat ghee in a pan and add bay leaf, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, black peppercorns, star anise, cumin and cook for a minute till the cumin seeds start spluttering.
- Add the drained rice to the pan with green chillies and saute on medium flame.
- Add 1 cup water and salt. Cover the lid and simmer for half an hour on low flame till it’s cooked.
- Serve Jeera Rice hot.
Nothing like Mutton Rogan Josh and a bowl of “Kashmiri Pulao” to start the week with
Ingredients :-
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 slit green cardamom
- 1 slit black cardamom
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 cloves
- 1 tsp dry ginger powder
- Salt
- 5 black peppercorns
- 1.5 cup water
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 4 saffron strands soaked in 3 tbsp water
- 1/2 cup onion
- 6 cashew nuts
- 10 raisins
- 5 almonds
- 1/2 cup paneer cubes
Method :-
- Heat ghee in a pan and add bay leaf, cumin seeds, green and black cardamoms, black peppercorns, cloves and cook till they start spluttering.
- Add rice, saffron, dry ginger powder, salt, water and cover the pan and cook on low flame.
- Fry cashew nuts, raisins, almonds in a separate frying pan till they turn golden.
- Similarly, fry onions until golden brown.
- Garnish the cooked rice with fried onions, fried dry fruits and paneer cubes.
- Serve Kashmiri Pulao hot.
Chana Dal Pulao for a change
- Soak 1/2 cup basmati rice in water for half an hour and 1/2 cup lentil (chana dal) for 1 hour respectively.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry 1 medium size sliced onion along with 1/2 tsp cumin, 1 cardamom, 1 cinnamon, 2 cloves and 1 bay leaf until golden brown.
- Add 1/2 tsp pepper, salt, 1 green chilli and 1/2 tsp garam masala and cook for a while.
- Drain the rice and lentil and add to the frying pan.
- Simmer for a few minutes on low flame.
- Add water and ghee as required and cook for about half an hour till it softens.
- Add 1 sliced green chilli for garnishing.
- Serve Chana Dal Pulao hot.
Can you spot the magic ingredient in Peas Pulao?
- Wash 1 cup basmati rice and soak in water for 20 minutes.
- Heat oil in a pan and add 1 tsp cumin seeds and 3/4 cup of green peas and cook for a minute.
- Drain the rice and add it in oil along with salt.
- Simmer for a few minutes on low flame.
- Add water as required and cook for about half an hour till it is cooked.
- Serve Peas Pulao hot.
