Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, ghee rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. 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 recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Ghee Rice is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have ghee rice using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ghee Rice:
- Make ready 370 g (13 oz) basmati rice
- Prepare 3 Tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
- Prepare 2 pandan leaves, rinsed and cut into 10-cm (4-inch) lengths
- Take 800 ml (26 fl oz) / 31/4 cups) water, mixed with 4 Tbsp fresh milk
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Take Whole Spices
- Prepare 2.5 -cm (1-inch) length cinnamon stick
- Make ready 2 star anise
- Make ready 3 cardamom pods
- Make ready 3 cloves
- Get Spice Paste
- Take 2 shallots, peeled
- Take 2 cloves garlic, peeled
- Prepare 5 -cm (2-inch) knob ginger, peeled
- Get Garnishing (Optional) A handful of roasted cashew nuts
- Take 1 handful cranberries
- Get 1 Tbsp crisp-fried shallots
- Take 1 handful coriander leaves
- Get Colouring (Optional)
- Make ready 1 pinch orange food colouring powder
- Take 1 pinch yellow food colouring powder
- Prepare 2 tsp water
Learn how to make Ghee Rice an aromatic and delicious rice recipe by Anushruti only on Rajshri Food! Ghee rice is the best recipe due to its simple. 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.
Steps 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.
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. Ghee rice is a great dish to accompany any type of curry on any occasion, festive or ordinary. The ghee rice is enriched by raisins, cashew nuts and many types of spices including cardamom. Flavored rice (called Basmati rice in India) cooked in dollops of ghee / butter with lots of onions resulting in a very flavorful and rich dish. Rice is one of the staple worldwide staple food.
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