Carrot Rice Recipe
Carrot rice recipe is a delicious and healthy recipe made using Basmati rice and carrots. This rice recipe for dinner is a mildly spiced carrot and rice recipe. This one pot meal and is ideal to pack in the kids lunch box.
Servings 4 People
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 1 medium sized onion finely chopped
- 2 medium sized carrots peeled and chopped
- 7 garlic peeled and chopped
- ½ inch ginger peeled and chopped
Spices:
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 cardamoms crushed
- 5 cloves
- 8 black pepper corns
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon salt or as per taste
- Few Coriander leaves for garnish
Instructions
- Add ginger and garlic to mortar-pestle and crush to make paste. Keep it aside.
- Wash the Basmati rice and keep aside for 20 minutes.
- Boil rice in 5 cups water on a stove top. Cook rice al-dente and do not over-cook it. Drain the rice on a colander and let it dry.
- Heat a pan or wok, add oil and after the oil gets heated add the spices namely crushed cardamom pods, bay leaves, black pepper corns and cloves. Ensure that the spices do not get burnt.
- Add onion and sauté.
- After the onion turns pinkish, add ginger-garlic paste and sauté till the raw smell of garlic goes away.
- Mix chopped carrots. Cover the pan and cook at simmer till carrots turn soft and tender.
- Add the spice powders namely red chili powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and garam masala, salt and mix well.
- Gently add rice and mix slowly ensuring that the rice grains does not break.
- Taste and adjust salt if needed.
- Add chopped coriander leaves and mix gently.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve hot.