TRI-COLOUR VEGETABLE RICE |
INTRODUCTION |
INGREDIENTS |
||
In today's atmosphere, everything is instant and due to work pressure and time restraints, housewives have little time to allot for cooking and yet the family demands good tasty food. There are some time tested recipes from my own kitchen. Try them and win hearts of people who love you.
|
Rice
1cup (Basmati/ Biriyani) |
||
METHOD OF PREPARATION
|
|||
Slice garlic, Dice onions and finely cut/ green chillies. Keep aside. Dice Carrots and Capsicums and set aside. If you are using Basmati Rice/ Biriyani Rice, ensure that the rice is old otherwise, if the rice is new, toast the rice after soaking in water for ten minutes and draining all the water, and toasting in a kadai in two spoons of ghee till the rice is very light creamy or pinkish looking. Toasting for about ten minutes would do. This would ensure your rice grains remains separate when cooking. Now take rice and put directly in cooker without any separator. Best to use is Hawkins pressure cooker. Add needed salt.. Add enough water to cook the rice and the .Please ensure that you add just enough( 500 ML) for the above. But ensure that you use only old rice. Water quantity must be fixed by you as per the quality and quantity off rice you use. Take a little oil in a kadai and fry carrots till they are properly cooked. You may pressure cook the carrots also after adding a little salt and sugar. Take care not to over cook the carrots. Now take oil in a Kadai and add cinnamon, Cardamom, and cloves. When cloves and cardamom puff up , add Sliced Garlic, when Garlic turns very light pink, add Onions and sliced Green chillies. Light fry till onions become translucent , remove from fire and let it cool. Keep aside. Put a spoon of oil on a tawa and when its hot, tawa fry the Capsicum pieces briskly for a minute .When fine aroma of Capsicums comes, remove immediately from tawa and keep it spread in a plate and set aside. You must take care never to over fry the Capsicum and ensure that the green colour is not lost. When the rice is completely cold, add fried onions, garlic & chillies to rice. Also add fried Capsicums and cooked /fried Carrots and salt, and mix well. Take care and ensure that the rice has proper amount of oil and the rice is not dry. .Cover with a lid and set it aside for an hour to let the spices aroma permeate in Rice. Tri colour vegetable rice looks and tastes very different from the other rice varieties posted so far by me. You may try to prepare this rice with Ghee if you like. When you are serving this rice, reheat by placing in a micro or use indirect steam heating. You may also reheat in a non stick pan. But ensure that the rice is Hot. The special aroma of Capsicum adds a very different dimension to this rice. This rice can be enjoyed with Raitha made of plain curd with cucumber /boondhi or Plantain. You may also make Kurma of Ghee Rice as an accompaniment
Enjoy!!! |
|||
Thanks to all the
ForumHubbers
for making this happen
|