Ghee rice recipe | Ghee rice with spices | Thuppa anna | Karnataka style ghee rice
By Latha on April 18th, 2016
Ghee rice recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Ghee rice prepared using ghee, rice, onion, garlic, ginger, cashews, bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and star anise. Try this tasty ghee rice recipe and enjoy.
This ghee rice recipe post is special to me as this is my first ever video recipe. Hope you all love and enjoy it. I have embedded the video below. Kindly have a look!
Ghee rice is a very simple and tasty rice recipe. My son loves ghee rice. He likes to ghee rice with tomato sauce. You can prepare vegetable kurma along with this. However I like to eat ghee rice as is..without any accompaniment. I prepare one more type of ghee rice using coconut milk. I will post that also in coming days.
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Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 cup rice (I used basmati rice)
- 4 tbsp ghee
- 1 small bay leaf
- 1 star anise
- 2 petals of mace / japatre (optional)
- 1 cardamom
- 1/2 finger length cinnamon
- 5 - 6 cloves
- 1/4 tsp black pepper corns
- 1 tsp finely chopped ginger
- 5 cashews broken
- 4 - 5 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 2 cups water (depends on rice quality)
- Salt as per your taste
Ingredients for garnishing:
- 5 cashews
- 1/4 onion slit lengthwise
- 2 slit green chillis
Instructions for making ghee rice:
- Rinse the rice, soak it in the water and keep it aside. Soaking for about 20 - 30 minutes is enough.
- Take ghee in a pressure cooker and heat it. Add in bay leaf, star anise, mace, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and black pepper corns. Fry them for few seconds.
- Add in finely chopped ginger, finely chopped garlic and broken cashews. Fry them for few seconds.
- Add in finely chopped onion. Fry until onions are soft under medium flame.
- Add in drained rice and fry for 2 minutes.
- Add in water and give a quick stir.
- Add in salt and stir it again.
- Close the lid make 2 whistles under medium flame.
- As soon as the pressure subsidies, take a fork and fluff the ghee rice.
- Now to prepare garnishing take 1 tsp of ghee in a frying pan and heat it. Add in the cashews and fry. Do not burn them.
- Followed by add in slit green chillis, onion and fry until soft.
- Now garnish the ghee rice and serve it hot with tomato sauce and pickle.
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