Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ghee rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ghee rice is mildly flavored with desi ghee, basic spices like cardamom, bay leaf, cinnamon and cloves. Ghee rice is made all over South India with slight variations. Ghee rice recipe with step by step photos - ghee rice is an aromatic and delicious one pot rice recipe made with ghee and spices.
Ghee Rice is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Ghee Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ghee rice using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ghee Rice:
- Prepare 370 g (13 oz) basmati rice
- Get 3 Tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
- Prepare 2 pandan leaves, rinsed and cut into 10-cm (4-inch) lengths
- Prepare 800 ml (26 fl oz) / 31/4 cups) water, mixed with 4 Tbsp fresh milk
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Prepare Whole Spices
- Get 2.5 -cm (1-inch) length cinnamon stick
- Get 2 star anise
- Prepare 3 cardamom pods
- Take 3 cloves
- Get Spice Paste
- Prepare 2 shallots, peeled
- Take 2 cloves garlic, peeled
- Take 5 -cm (2-inch) knob ginger, peeled
- Get Garnishing (Optional) A handful of roasted cashew nuts
- Get 1 handful cranberries
- Make ready 1 Tbsp crisp-fried shallots
- Get 1 handful coriander leaves
- Get Colouring (Optional)
- Get 1 pinch orange food colouring powder
- Get 1 pinch yellow food colouring powder
- Make ready 2 tsp water
Ghee rice also known as neychoru is one of the most simplest and easiest recipe. It is a flavorful dish prepared with rice, ghee and spices. Ghee rice is the best recipe due to its simple. While cooking Ghee rice, the aroma from the spices and the rice roasting in the ghee will spread all over the house in no time and everyone will be seen taking in a few deep breaths.
Instructions to make Ghee Rice:
- Rinse the rice and drain. Set aside.
- Pound the ingredients for the spice paste coarsely using a mortar and pestle. Set aside. Heat the ghee in a heavy-bottom pan over medium heat. Add the whole spices and fry for a few seconds until fragrant. Add the spice paste and pandan leaves and fry for 2 minutes until the mixture is slightly dry - and fragrant.
- Add the water and milk mixture and salt. Bring to a boil. - Add the rice and stir gently to mix. Turn the heat down and let it simmer until all the liquid has been evaporated or absorbed. Alternatively, cook the rice using a rice cooker.
- At this point, you can add some colour to the rice, if desired. Mix the orange and yellow food colouring powders separately with 1 tsp water. Sprinkle over the cooked rice and let it sit until you are ready to serve.
- Stir the rice to mix the coloured grains.
- Dish out and garnish with cashew nuts, cranberries, - crisp-fried shallots and/or chopped coriander leaves. Serve hot.
Ghee rice recipe is a fragrant, subtly spiced special rice among the variety rice items of India. Laden with clarified butter, caramelized onions, aromatic spices, nuts and coriander leaves. Ghee rice is one of the simplest dishes that anyone with basic cooking skills should learn to make. This recipe should also be in the kitchen survival kit handed over by mums (or dads). Ghee rice is a great dish to accompany any type of curry on any occasion, festive or ordinary.
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