Rice Recipes

Egg Masala Rice ( Mutta Masala Chorru )

  This rice can be made within 30 minutes. But it has full of flavour, I love it with some onion raita and my lunch will get filled. This is a great receipe to put in lunch box, kids will love it. Since the eggs is spiced first it has some flavour too instead of bland plain eggs. This is a great receipe to use leftover rice from the previoys

Malabar Ghee Rice (Neychoru)

Kerala, the God’s Own Country, is also referred to as the ‘Land of Spices’. Each region has a delectable culinary repertory of its own. Today I am sharing a delicious Malabar Ghee Rice. It also known as Neychoru’ and can have with any spicy mutton, chicken, beef or vegetable curry. This rice preparation is very simple and easy to make and every common preparation for special occasions like family gatherings or parties.

Chinese Chicken Fried Rice

The harmonious integration of color, taste, and appearance made Chinese Cuisine popular all over the world. The choice of various ingredients, seasonings and the heating mechanism used in chinese cooking gives such a great perfection to all the senses.People in different countries add their own flavours and spices to Chinese food to customize it to their own taste. Fried rice ,with Gobi Manchurian as its side,is one of the tastiest

Chicken Mandi ( An Arabian Dish)

Mandi, a traditional dish of Yemen made either with chicken or lamb. Mandi is now popular among other Arab countries as well. Traditionally, the meat is slow cooked in a tandoor which makes the meat extremely tender and delicious, and served over aromatic rice.The spice rub used to marinate the chicken is called Hawaij– coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, whole black peppercorns are roasted till aromatic and made into a powder.

Chicken Khichdi Recipe

Hello, food fellas. Today I am sharing one of the most unusual yet delicious Chicken Khichdi Recipe .When it’s chicken and rice recipes, we often start with chicken biriyani and chicken casserole recipes and stop at chicken fried rice recipe. So I got an idea to mix chicken with my favorite moong dal khichdi. This one pot meal is an ideal recipe for bachelors too. Chicken Khichdi   The results are impressive.

Rice Papadi Chat Recipe

Rice Papadi chat is made of leftover rice. It’s a very interesting breakfast. We generally fry leftover rice; I usually avoid oil so thought of innovating something new with leftover rice. It is one of my innovations. It has spicy tangy taste; all kind of people love it. Kids usually demand for new dishes, it can be one for them; something new and interesting. Let’s Begin Note: When making for

rice-recipe

Today’s recipe is an easy to make, tasty and healthy rice dish.  It is called as jeera rice as it is flavored with cumin.  Inspite of being an easy to make rice dish, it is very tasty and makes use of very few ingredients.  Just whole spices, cumin seeds and rice.  These are the only three ingredients needed to make this dish and this is a one pot dish.  I

pressure-cooker-chicken-biryani

Chicken biryani –  is a tasty rice dish which is widely made throughout India.  There are various variations to this biryani from place to place.  Thalassery biryani is very famous in Kerala whereas there are many varieties of biryani in Tamil Nadu like Ambur biryani, Thalappakatti biryani and so on.  Today, I am sharing an easy method of making this delicious rice dish. This method of making chicken biryani makes use

prawns-biryani

Today’s recipe is an extremely delicious prawns biryani .  Usually I make biryani in Kerala style but today, I wanted to try something different.  I started browsing for recipes and definitely I got many wonderful recipes out of which this one caught my attention.  The biryani is made using pressure cooker – a very easy to make one pot meal.  Final result was an extremely tasty, flavourful biryani.  Now to

Lemon Rice Recipe

Hello dear foodies! So after a few Maharashtrian recipes, it’s time to go South! Today’s recipe is Lemon Rice. It is one of the most popular rice recipes from the culinary world of South India. Be it tamarind rice, tomato rice, curd rice or sambar rice, I love them all. But I have a  soft corner of Lemon Rice. The flavors are so vibrant and refreshing. When you taste the

Coconut rice / Thenga sadam

Thengai sadam / coconut rice is a very tasty rice variety from South India.  Variety rice are always an interesting change from kootan and upperi.  It is easy to prepare and can be served with a simple side dish like potato roast.  This is one such dish which can be prepared during busy morning hours.  The flavor of this rice comes from the roasted coconut and the addition of cashews

Mysore Masala Dosa Recipe

Hello dear foodies. Hope you had a great Saturday feasting on delicious food! So coming to today’s recipe, it Mysore Masala Dosa! One of my all time favorites, this south Indian delicacy is popular across the nation. Mysore Masala Dosa is a bit different from the usual Masala Dosa. Mysore Masala Dosa is spicy and it gets its heat from the special chutney that is applied onto it. The potato filling is usually a

kuska biryani

Kuska biryani – is nothing but plain biryani without vegetables cooked with masala and spices.  This is an easy to make biryani as there is no need to chop vegetables, and the rice is cooked in coconut milk which gives it a wonderful flavor.  I usually make this biryani when I am running short of time or when I don’t have enough vegetables to prepare vegetable biryani. You can also make

mushroom biryani with biryani masala

Today’s recipe is a nice tasty biryani which can be prepared easily and can be served to your family, for guests or even packed for lunch.  The difficult part in making this biryani is cleaning mushrooms and the easiest part is this can be cooked in a pressure cooker.  This recipe makes use of biryani masala, you can make use of homemade biryani masala powder or store bought ones. This

khara pongal

Pongal is a famous festival of South India, it is a harvest festival.  Pongal in Tamil means something that is overflowing.  Usually it is overflowing of rice and milk. Ven pongal or khara pongal is a famous breakfast dish in Southern part of India.  It is very easy to prepare, tasty and healthy.  This can be served with coconut chutney or sambar.  My husband loves it with onion salad, though

puttu upma

Puttu ularthiyathu / puttu upma is a traditional Kerala dish which can be prepared from fresh puttu or left over puttu.  I have already shared the recipe of puttu.  Puttu is a traditional breakfast dish in Kerala and is served with pazham which means banana and papad or with kadala curry (black chickpeas curry).  Puttu with kadala curry is a very tasty combination.  But sometimes at home, we have some

elumbicha sadam

Lemon rice is a South Indian dish which can be easily prepared even when you are in a hurry.  This can also be made with leftover rice. This recipe comes handy when you wake up late and want to prepare lunch.   This is also best dish to pack for lunch or it is also good to pack during travel time.  Since lemon is added, this rice dish will not get

curd rice

Curd rice is a very popular South Indian meal.  It is a very easy to make rice recipe which can be made even by a layman.  The method of making curd rice is very simple – cook the rice, mash it, mix it with milk, curd, butter and salt.  Finally temper the ingredients and add it to the rice mixture.  Ready.  Tasty curd rice is ready to be served.  Apart from

Ada pradhaman / Kerala style payasam (with jaggery and coconut milk)

Ada pradhaman is a traditional payasam or dessert of Kerala.  There are two varieties of ada payasam made with these rice pasta bits.  One being ada pradhaman (made with jaggery and coconut milk) and the other palada pradhaman (with milk and sugar) and both are absolutely delicious.  The process of making ada pradhaman is bit tedious, but it is definitely worth the effort.  This payasam is an integral part of

carrot rice

Rice dishes are very popular and loved equally by everyone in India, though the name and style changes from place to place.  Whether it be dal rice, or variety rice or pulao, what ever be the name, everyone loves it.  And in South India, it is a custom to have rice in the afternoon for lunch.  Rice with sambar, upperi or poriyal, pappad, pickle, curd and rasam is considered to