Brown Rice for dinner or Tomato Rice Recipe

Brown rice ,that i cooked today is not really the brown rice,which is refined and the barn is removed to make it white rice.I actually cooked the white rice to render a brown color to it.
Let me tell you how exactly,I turned the white rice to brown rice in the following rice Recipe .







Ingredients for Tomato Rice Recipe:

1. Take 4 cups of white rice(saok the rice in water) reduce or increase the size according to your requirement.
2. take 1 medium size chopped onion.
3. cumin seeds,1 teaspoonful.
4. 1 teaspoonful mustard seeds .
5. 2 green chillies.
6. 1/2 teaspoonful turmeric powder.
7. salt to taste.
8. take 2 large size tomatoes or if you have tomato paste ,take 2-3 tablespoonful.
9. 6-7 big pods of garlic,chopped finely.
10. 2 tablespoonful Olive Oil.
11. 8-10 almonds.
12. 1/2 a cup of chopped coriander leaves

Method for cooking rice ,the right way:

• take a pot ,in which you want to cook the rice.
• Add the oil in it and heat.
• Add the mustard seeds and let them splatter.
• Next add cumin seeds .
• Add the almonds and fry them until golden brown.
  
• Add the chopped onions into it,add a pinch of salt to hasten the onions to fry(golden brown).
• Next add the chopped garlic.
• add the chopped coriander leaves and green chillies.
• Add 6 cups of water with the same cup that you measured the rice with.
• Add the rice into the mixture.
• cover the pot with a lid and let the mixture cook until the water dries and you start seeing the holes appearing on the topmost layer.At this point reduce the flame to the lowest heat and let it cook for 10-15 minutes.

Tip:
for cooking the rice in the right way,is to soak the rice for atleast 30 minutes before cooking and for cooking the rice- 2 cups of rice requires 3 cups of water.

I called this Tomato Rice recipe as Brown rice just because of the appearance of the rice after it is cooked.
When cooked in the right way,this recipe of rice is easy to follow and tastes good ,Rice is also a very nutritious food because it is one of the four group of foods,Rice being one of the cereal food.

I hope you enjoyed this delicious recipe of rice and i also hope you have learned to cook the rice in a right way,and the rice looks like pearls.because each grain of rice is separated and looks great.
Leave a word in my comments section if you like my rice recipe

RICE COOKED WITH SPLIT GREEN LENTILS (khichdi)

I call this as food for a child or food for a sick person,because it is quite mild to taste and also a person who has lost the taste after having a fever would like to have this nutritious yet delicious rice which is also soft(they also call it khichdi in south India)

It is quite easy and fast to cook,just follow the steps as below:

• take 2 cups of rice soaked in water for 30 min.
  
• 1/2 a cup of moong dal(split green lentils).
• 1 medium sized onion,chopped finely.
• ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp(1:1)ratio.
• 2 green chillies.
• 1/2 a bunch of cilantro and mint leaves.
• turmeric powder 1/4 tsp.
• olive oil 1 tablespoonful.
• Salt to taste.

Method:

1. Heat a pot on the stove and add the oil into it.
2. when oil is hot add the split lentils and fry until golden brown( do not char them)
3. then add chopped onions into it and fry until golden yellow.
4. then add the green chillies,mint and cilantro leaves.
5. next add ginger and garlic paste and fry a little.
6. add salt to taste .
7. Next add 6 cups of water(since this rice should be very soft)
8. Let the mixture cook and when only a little water is left cover the vessel and cook it in low flame for about 7-8 min.

mmmm Our rice tastes and smells good at the same time.
You can enjoy it with mint sauce(pudina chutney).
I shall share my recipe of mint chutney ot sauce with you in my next blog.
Until then have a happy eating and stay healthy may God help you all.
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HYDERABADI BIRYANI

Biryani, is one of the delicious dishes of India and it has different ways of cooking procedure depending on which part of India it comes from.
The main ingredient for this recipe is rice and meat(chicken,mutton or lamb,beaf,egg,shrimp etc)
today let me tell you about the hyderabadi biryani,which originated from the city-hyderabad ,which is in the southern part of India.





The Ingredients are as follows:

• Let us take 4 cups of rice(250ml) soaked in water.
• take about 1 kg of any meat(marinated for 4 hrs ).
• chopped mint leaves and cilantro leaves(1/2 a bunch each).
• Fried onions.
• Oil(4 tablespoonful olive oil or canola oil).

Ingredients for marination:

• Take cinnamon pods(3-4 small peices)
• green chilly
• cushed black pepper(1 teaspoonful)
• red chilli powder(1 teaspoonful)
• turmeric powder (1/2 tablespoonful)
• Meat tenderiser(1 tablespoonful)-you can also use raw papaya or raw pineapple instead.
• ginger garlic paste.
• 1 and 1/2 cup yogurt.
• salt to taste and 1 tablespoonful of lemon juice

1.Wash the meat well and drain well,apply the tenderiser on it and let it stand for 30 mins.
2.Next add the remaining part of the marination mixture to it and let it stand for 3-4 hrs.
3.take a pot which will fit in the oven and hold your biryani in it,add the meat which is marinated into it and pour the oil over it followed by 1/4 of the chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves over it along withhalf of the onions(fried) over it.
4.In a seperate pot heat about 10 -11 cups of water(250 ml cup),and add the rice (previously soaked for at least 30 mins) into it and let the rice cook upto 40 %
5.with the help of a strainer take about 1/2 the rice and spread the strained rice over the meat mixture in the other pot,and let the remaning rice still cook(about 5 mins only)
6. meanwhile add some more fried onions and the chopped mint and coriander leaves over the layer of rice
7.when the remaining rice is 50% cooked take half of the remaining rice in the strainer and spread over the onion and mint layer again.
8.repeat the layers untill all the rice is place in layers.
9.on top of the last layer of rice spread the remaining fried onion,chopped mint and coriander leaves and a pinch of dried safron and pour a mixture of yellow food clour(about 1/2 teaspoon in 1 tablespoonful water ) .
10. place this mixture on high heat for not more than 10 mins(well covered).
11.preheat the oven to 425 degree farenheit and after heating the above mixture for 10 mins place it in the oven for 40 minutes .
12. after 40 mins take it out of the oven and mix it well from the bottom of the vessel.

steaming hot biryani full of flavours is ready to be served