Recipes - Simple Pudina Rice
- Jennifer D’Souza
- Mangalore/Dubai
Ingredients:
3 cups basmati rice (600 gms)
1 bunch coriander leaves
1 bunch pudina (mint) leaves
8–10 green chilies
2 Medium onions
2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
2 tbsp. ghee
4-5 cloves
2 ” cinnamon
4- 5 cardamoms
Salt as per taste.
6 cups hot water
1 lime (Optional)
Garnish: (Optional)
Handful of roasted cashew nuts & brown onion rings
Method:
Wash and soak rice in water for about an hour. Grind coriander leaves, mint leaves and green chilies together into a fine paste. Heat a heavy bottomed pan with ghee. Add cloves, cinnamon and cardamom. When they splutter add sliced onions and sauté until light brown. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry for 2 minutes. Add coriander-mint paste and fry until good aroma comes. Add rice and stir gently. Add hot water along with salt and lime juice (optional). Keep covered on slow flame for about 20 minutes or until the rice is cooked. Serve hot garnished with cashew nuts & brown onion rings (optional) with curd and pickle of your choice.
Editor’s note: Adjust the chilies according to your taste.
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