Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ghee rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ghee Rice is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Ghee Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ghee rice using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ghee Rice:
- Prepare 370 g (13 oz) basmati rice
- Prepare 3 Tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
- Make ready 2 pandan leaves, rinsed and cut into 10-cm (4-inch) lengths
- Get 800 ml (26 fl oz) / 31/4 cups) water, mixed with 4 Tbsp fresh milk
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare Whole Spices
- Get 2.5 -cm (1-inch) length cinnamon stick
- Take 2 star anise
- Get 3 cardamom pods
- Prepare 3 cloves
- Prepare Spice Paste
- Take 2 shallots, peeled
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, peeled
- Make ready 5 -cm (2-inch) knob ginger, peeled
- Prepare Garnishing (Optional) A handful of roasted cashew nuts
- Get 1 handful cranberries
- Get 1 Tbsp crisp-fried shallots
- Prepare 1 handful coriander leaves
- Prepare Colouring (Optional)
- Get 1 pinch orange food colouring powder
- Take 1 pinch yellow food colouring powder
- Get 2 tsp water
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.
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