Simple yet flavourful garlic rice which goes well with any spicy curries. This makes a perfect lunch box dish too.
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Garlic Rice |
Garlic Rice Recipe
I love garlic in anything. This dish is one of the best dish of mine. This is one of the most simplest yet flavourful rice preparation. I served this with Sweet and Sour Tofu.. Give this dish a try and let me know what you think.
Ingredients for Garlic Rice
Rice
Garlic
Green chilli
Cinnamon
Cumin seeds
Raisins
Peanuts
Cashews
Almonds
Black Pepper
Coriander leaves
Method
- Soak rice for 30 min. Cook rice by adding some salt and oil in it.
- In a kadai heat oil and fry garlic. Add almonds,peanuts and cashews and fry till golden.
- Throw in cinnamon, cumin seeds and mix well.
- Add green chilli, raisins, salt and mix well.
- Now add in cooked rice,pepper and toss well.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
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Garlic Rice Recipe | Poondu Sadham Recipe
Ingredients
- Rice-2 cup
- Garlic-10 cloves chopped
- Green chilli-2 chopped
- Cinnamon / Pattai-1 inch piece
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp
- Raisins / kishmish-1 tblpsn
- Peanuts / Verkadalai-1 tblpsn
- Cashews-1 tblspn
- Almonds / Badam-1 tblspn
- Pepper-1 tblspn
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Soak rice for 30 min.Cook rice by adding some salt and oil in it.
- In a kadai heat oil and fry garlic..Add almonds,peanuts and cashews and fry till golden.
- Throw in cinnamon,cumin seeds and mix well.
- Add green chilli, raisins, salt and mix well.
- Now add in cooked rice,pepper and toss well.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
Priya Sreeram
garlic rice with nuts looks smashing & cingrats to Radhika on the win ; kudos to you for the efforts aarthi !
Puan Ros @ Tadika Sinaran Intelek
Hai arrthi,wah this is a must try recipe.Looks yummy.By the way,I have made the calzone this morning followed your recipe with some adjustment.My whole family love it.Thank u for sharing.
yummylittlecooks
Sounds delicious with almond and cashew in it:)
Deeksha
Looks very very tasty...I am hungry now 🙂
kaveri
Loved this rice...bookmarking it...
Belinda @zomppa
I love garlic as well! What a wonderful dish!
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
Absolutely love the recipe, never made it before. Congrats Aarthi for winning the giveaway 🙂
The Short (dis)Order Cook
Yum. Definitely a fun way to spice up rice. I love garlic too. Next time I make rice I am trying this.