Masala Rice – Quick Rise Dish

Masala Rice

Masala rice is easy to make rice verity and can be cooked very fast also. In fact, making rice with different ingredients will actually changing the taste of the final product. If you change one ingredient the entire taste of the rice changes. Another advantage of making Masala rices is you need not prepare a side dish to serve along with the rice. Raita would do with most of the Masala rice verities. As you know raita is also a very easy to make side dish. This will of course taste good even without a side dish. But serving with Raita will enhance the taste. This is really my favourite without Raita in fact. 
Quick tip : To get the best taste of this rice is that make sure that the Ginger Garlic paste is fried completely before adding water. else it would lead to dominating taste of Ginger.

Ingredients: 

• Rice-1cup 
• Chopped onions-1no. 
• Chopped Tomato-1no. 
• Slit green chillies-4nos. 
• Redchilli Powder-1/2tsp 
• Ginger-garlic paste-1tsp 
• Turmeric-1/2tsp 
• Cardamom(Elaichi)-2 
• Jeera – 2tspn 
• Cinnamon(Dalchina chekka)- 1/2 inch 
• Cloves (Lavang)-2 
• cilantro (Kothimeera) – smallbunch 
• Bay Leaf (Pulav Aaku) -1 
• Water- 2cups 
• Oil- tbsp 
• Salt- to taste 

METHOD :

• Make a paste of cilantro, green chilies, ginger and garlic. Keep it aside. 
• Heat oil in a vessel (You can also substitute it with a rice cooker). 
• Add Elaichi, Dalchina chekka, Cloves, Bay Leaf and Jeera and Fry for a minute. 
• Add the onions and fry till it becomes light brown. 
• Add the ginger garlic paste,tumeric,green chillies,tomatoes and fry it till oil leaves the side of the pan. 
• Add rice and mix well. Fry for 2-3 minutes. 
• Add water and salt. Cook the rice till it gets cooked properly. 
• Serve with raita.

This dish will help you to quickly complete the dinner. Children also love it too.
You can try the other verieties of Rice Dishes like CAPSICUM AND PANEER RICE