Rice Recipes

For all the rice recipes and dishes the cooking time and amount of water will depend on the quality of rice. You will get an exact idea when you use a particular type of rice again and again. Always buy the same brand and type of rice so that you get an idea of its cooking properties.

Recipe type: Fat free, cholesterol free
Preparation time: 15 minute

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Basmati Rice (preferably Dehraduni)
• 2 teaspoon lime juice
• 3-4 Bay leaves

Preparation

1. Wash rice. Soak in 2.5 cup water half an hour in advance.
2. In a deep skillet take rice with water, add lime juice and bays leaves.
3. Boil till the rice is cooked, 12-15 minutes.
4. Cover the skillet with a plate of size equal to the rim of the skillet. Hold the skillet and the plate carefully at its rim and tilt to drain all the water in another skillet. (You can use a sieve to drain off all the water, if you are not comfortable with the method just mentioned.) Keep this water for making soup.
5. Remove the bays leaves.

Serve with any vegetable curry.

Uma Aradhya K (uma_rudresh at yahoo dot co dot in) has suggested the following south Indian dishes:

1. Tamarind Rice Recipe:

Take rice and mix tamrind juice, little jaggery, salt and red chili powder or rasam powder and season with mustard, jeera, curry leaves, garlic and ground nuts.

2. Spicy Rice

Ingridients
Rice 1 Cup, tomato 2-3, onion 1, grated coconut, corriander leaves, mint leaves, 1/2 teaspoon garam masala, red chili powder, salt to taste.

Preparation
Put 2 spoon oil in a cooker and add mustard, cumin, half tea spoon garam masala, ginger and garlic paste, chopped onion, chopped tomato, rice, chili powder, salt, corriander and mint leaves and close cooker. Let it cook up to 3 whistles.

You can also add sambar power.