Indian Rice Recipes: Ghee Rice Recipe

Ghee rice is a delicious Indian rice dish made with Ghee, the Indian Clarified Butter and spices to give the rice flavor and aroma. As a side dish you can use a non-vegetarian side like Butter Chicken or vegetarian side dish like Vegetable Korma.

Ingredients for Ghee Rice Recipe

• Rice – 2 cups (jeera samba rice or basmati rice or sona masuri rice)
• Green chilly – 10 nos
• Tomato – 2 nos (medium, chopped finely)
• Onion – 2 medium sized made into paste
• Ginger Garlic paste – 4 tbsp
• Beans – 1/4 cup
• Carrot – 1/4 cup
• Peas – 1 cup
• Clove – 6 nos
• Cinnamon – 1 stick
• Bay leaf – 1 no
• Star anise – 1 no
• Cardamom – 3 nos
• Kasturi Methi – 1 tsp
• Cashew nut – 8 nos
• Ghee – 3 tbsp
• Oil – 4 tbsp
• Coconut milk – 2 cups
• Water – 1 cup
• Salt to taste

Cooking time: 45 minutes

Serving: 3 to 4 people

Cooking Method for Ghee Rice Recipe

1. Take a rice cooker on medium heat and add ghee and oil.
2. After a couple of minutes add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf, star anise and cardamom.
3. Then add  onion paste. Stir the mixture and sauté till the raw smell of onion vanishes.
4. Add ginger-garlic paste and cook till the raw smell goes.
5. Then put green chilly, cashew nuts and cook for 3 more minutes.
6. Add tomato, peas, carrot and beans with 1 tsp of salt. Cook till tomatoes are mushy.
7. At this point add coconut milk and water. Bring the contents to boil.
8. Then add some more salt to taste and put rice.
9. Close the lid and cook till 1 or 2 whistles or 15 minutes on low heat.

The Ghee Rice is now ready to be served. Serve Ghee Rice with a side dish like Vegetable Korma or with any non-vegetarian gravy like Butter Chicken.