Cheese is one such versatile ingredient that adds taste and glamour to any recipe. Just as it did to our week-night dinner recipe of this delicious Bell-pepper & Cheese Rice Pilaf (Pulao) which was beautiful to look at and even more wonderful to eat! Generally, rice pulao needs a dal or curry to go with it, but this Pulao Recipe stands all on its own, and is definitely not a sidekick! Mildly
Hope you all had a great weekend. Mine went with sleeping and shopping. You know what? Now a days I am starting to feel guilty if I dint post at least 1 recipe a day. I hope everyone is feeling the same. Yesterday I couldn't post and I felt as though I did something wrong :) Anyways today I have come up with the simplest yet a scrumptious recipe made with rice. Yes you got it right- Jeera rice. wh
Sometimes I feel like mentally flogging myself for not going with my gut instinct when it first urges me to do something, and on occasion, it really comes back to slap me good. Like seeing some ultra-bargain in any random store and thinking ‘Wow, I should get some of that.’ - insert any item into [...]
Energy rich rice has been the staple food of India since the earliest times.
It is easy to cook and blends well with vegetables, meats and pulses. There
are three main varieties of rice: the short grained colam rice, used in most
of east, west and south Indian; the long grained basmati, [...]
I never learnt to ride a bicycle. During a summer vacation when I was 6 years old, I remember vividly one morning, seeing a small cycle on our veranda. I ran to the kitchen where I saw Amma busy with the breakfast preparations. I interrupted her to ask, what that cycle was doing in our courtyard. She said I was to spend my summer time, learning to ride a cycle. We then lived in a smaller town, where everything was right around the corner. And so it happened, that a cycle shop was right next to our place and I saw our help going to get those small cycles for us to ride. Sree, of course, got a big boy's cycle. Since I was small, there was no way I could even climb up but I strongly refused to peddle a smaller one. I felt it somehow was demeaning my status or so I thought. So there I was, lef
"In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom."Barbara Costikyan LAMB BIRYANI/YAKHNI PULAODecided to make a biryani/yakni pulao for lunch last weekend. Have been procrastinating making it for long as it is just a bit involved. Then I thought, might as well, & went off to dust the cob-webs off my biryani utensil which hadn't seen light of day for a while. Life seems to be all about eating & drinking...so I got on with tying my bouquet garni!! In a strange quirk of fate, after eating the Mughlai dish for lunch, we unexpectedly got invited to see a special screening of the film 'Jodhaa Akbar' that night. The film was a tad disappointing for a period film. It's based on a 16th century love story about a marriage of allia
Ingredients: 1 big size potato diced in small pieces 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 cup samwat rice 2 tbsp ghee 2 cloves 2 tsp rock salt (kala namak) 2 green cardamom a tiny piece of cinnamon green coriander to garnish 1/2 tsp red chili powder 3 cup waterMethod: Heat up ghee in a pot. Mix in cumin seeds, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon. When they give off fragrance, mix in potato and rice. Stir-fry to a light brown color. Mix in rock salt, chilli powder and water and boil. Cover the pot and let it simmer (boil slowly at low temperature) on low flame for about 15 minutes. Decorate with green coriander. Serve hot.
Since discovering the wealth of recipes to be found on the web, especially those published on many of the food blogs I now regularly read, I find that I hardly ever feel to the need to seek out a recipe book. That said, I do like to occasionally flick through one of my few recipe books at the weekend to get ideas for meals. This Christmas, I received another two books, both with good flick-through properties and today, I decided to give one of the recipes I found a try.My sister got me The Indian Kitchen by Monisha Bharadwaj, a really interesting book, with more emphasis on the ingredients, rather than the recipes themselves. Definitely a nice format for a book of this kind, and with lots of nice photos and illustrations too. There’s more than one ingredient mentioned that I’d never
Simplicity at its best, peas and raisins did wonders to this rice pilaf! This simple rice dish largely depends on petite peas, raisins, cinnamon, ginger and garlic to deliver that big flavor! This rice pilaf is a perfect display for simple yet flavorful Indian Cooking. Raisins and Cashewnuts paired nicely with this spiced rice pilaf, which added to the surprise sweet bites balancing the spices.I made this for the first time when i had a pot luck at my work place, i remember last year i made our regular vegetable biriyani with the store bought biriyani masala and i swear everyone where literally asking ' how do you people eat this spciy food everyday?', and you know what i really didnt add any green chillies and added very less masala than usual. But this time my peas and rice pilaf dish is a winner at my work, 99% of them being non indians, i wanted to keep it low on spicyness, yet wanted them to learn that Indian cooking is not just spicy, its packed with flavor from the spice
As my blogger buddy Pooja said, winter in green. So I thought why I don't try cooking some green dish. After scratching my head and also my hubby's head I thought why I don't try some green rice for our lunch box. So I rushed into my kitchen and opened my treasure chest which happens to be my fridge and started taking out whatever green veggies available there. Well, I had Coriander leaves, Mint leaves, Green Chillies, Dill, Green Peas and Broccoli… Wait a second, broccoli? Well, why not? If we can make cauliflower rice then why not with broccoli? So with this thought in mind and backing up from my sweetheart I went into a mission of creating my own version of "Green Pulao'. Green PulaoIngredients:2 cups of Rice1 medium Onion, roughly chopped½ cup Green Peas1 medium Broccoli, cut into big florets including stem½ tbsp Jeera/Cumin Seeds1 inch Cinnamon3-4 Cloves2-3 Green Cardamom2 Bay Leaves½ tbsp ginger Paste½ tbsp garlic Paste½ tbsp Ground Pepper1 tbsp GheeGrind to smo
In India, Rice is very important part of daily diet. The variety of rice and the number of recipes available for cooking rice is amazing. Just by adding few little its ‘n bits can turn plain boring rice into a pleasurable experience.In our kitchen the maximum cooked food is rice. My hubby and myself prefer taking rice dishes for our lunch box. So it’s a big challenge for me to find out and try out different rice recipes so that we don’t get bored of eating rice. For us every meal is very important in out daily diet. Making not just a tasty food but also a healthy food at a same time can be sometimes daunting. But hey… I love such challenges and love experimenting new recipes in my lab, that’s my kitchen.Here I'm posting a simple rice recipe. Its Peas Pulao. Peas Pulao with Xtra OomphIngredients:2 cups Rice1 cup Green Peas1 inch Cinnamon2-3 Cloves2 Cardamom1 Bay Leaf/Pulao Leaf1 medium Onion, chopped1 tsp Garlic Paste1 tsp Ginger Paste1/2 tbsp Pulao Masala1/2 tsp Black Pepper
