Spiced Rice

Name: Spiced Rice
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 clove garlic, smashed but still in its skin; 2 cloves; 4 black peppercorns; 2 cardomom pods; 1/2 tsp turmeric powder; 1 bay leaf; 1 pinch salt; 1/3 cup basmati rice; 1 2/3 cup water

Celeste @celeste_xtina_C00K5

Essex

My family like plain boiled rice with every kind of curry, but, particularly with Chicken Tikka Masala (see https://cookpad.wasmer.app/uk/recipes/352376-chicken-tikka-masala?invite_token=m8cJT99fm1wMNcEYHMnxXutF&shared_at=1618842991 ), I like this version of pilau rice, based on Madhur Jaffrey's recipe for Tumeric Rice. It gives the curry an authentic touch.

Celeste @celeste_xtina_C00K5

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Ingredients

30 mins

1 serving

1/2 tbspvegetable oil
1 clovegarlic, smashed but still in its skin
2cloves
4black peppercorns
2cardomom pods
1/2 tspturmeric powder
1bay leaf
1 pinchsalt
1/3 cupbasmati rice
1 2/3 cupwater

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Steps

30 mins

1

Rinse the rice in a sieve until water is clear (no more starch)
2

Heat the oil in a smallish saucepan with a lid, add the spices and garlic clove and fry them for one minute.
3

Stir in the rice, getting it coated in the spices.
4

Add the water, stir one more time, then cover and allow to cook for 10 minutes.
5

When you can see through the lid that there are no water bubbles in the rice, but before it dries out and starts to burn, turn off the heat, remove the lid and cover the pan with a clean tea towel. Leave it like this until you are ready to serve
6

Take off the tea towel, fetch out the spices and smashed garlic clove (they should be at the top of the rice anyway) then use a fork to fluff up the rice before putting it on the plate.