Malabar Ghee rice
kerala nei choru - Long grain basmati rice cooked with mild spices and ghee. Garnished with nuts and fried onions.
Servings: 3 servings
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Ingredients
- 1 cup basmati rice
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 2 no bay leaf
- 1.5 inch cinnamon stick
- 5-6 no cloves
- 4 no green cardamom
- 2 no green chilli slit
- 1/2 no onion - finely sliced
- 1.5 cups hot water
- salt to taste
- 1/2 no lemon
for garnishing
- 1 tbsp ghee
- 3 tbsp cashews
- 2 tbsp dry grapes
- 3 medium onions - sliced
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Firstly, Wash and Soak the basmati rice in water for 30 minutes.
- In a pot, heat ghee and add in all the whole spices: cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, bay leaves along with green chilli and onions.
- Fry the onions until they turn soft.
- Drain the soaked rice and add it to the pot. fry it along with the spices just until all the moisture from the rice is left.
- Heat 1.5 cups water and add the hot water to the rice along with salt and lemon juice.
- mix once. Close the pot with the towel and cover it with a lid.
- Let it cook in simmer/low flame for 8 minutes
- Put off the flame. Open the lid and mix the rice once. Close immediately and let it sit aside on countertop for 20 minutes undisturbed.
- meanwhile, fry cashews, raisins and sliced onions in ghee separately until brown and drain the excess ghee.
- Open the pot and fluff the rice.
- garnish with fried nuts and onions. serve hot with curry of your choice.