Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Microwave Cashew Rice

I never tried cooking rice in microwave, after googling and reading loads of rice dishes been prepared in microwave pulled me really to try out this simple cashew rice...this cashew rice ressembles very much in between jeera rice and ghee rice, thought of preparing simple jeera rice i soaked rice for 15 minutes and started preparing the spices etc, but finally i added a cup of store bought coconut milk and slit opened green chillies and few cashew nuts while cooking, which made this rice more delicious than wat i tried to do..I was very happy to prepare this rice through microwave coz its really needs almost 20 minutes to prepare..we had this cashew rice with paneer jalfrezi for our sterday's lunch, just loved it!!!!..My last entry to MEC-Nuts guest hosted by Mythreyee of Paajaka, event by Srivalli also to CFK-Rice guest hosted by Trupti of Recipe Center, event by Sharmi n Lets Go Nuts guest hosted by Poornima, event by Aquadaze...


1cup Basmati Rice
1cup Coconut milk
1cup Water
1tsp Cumin seeds
20nos Cashew pieces
3tbsp Ghee
1no Onion (chopped)
1tsp Ginger garlic paste
2nos Green chillies (slit opened)
2tbsp Coriander leaves (chopped)

Wash and soak the rice with coconut milk and water for 15 minutes, take a microwave bowl, add the ghee, cashew pieces and jeera and microwave for 1 minutes, now add the chopped onion,ginger garlic paste, slit opened green chillies and cook again for 1 minutes, stir in between and cook again for two more minute...add now the soaked rice along with water&coconut milk and with enough salt, stir everything and microwave for 15 minutes..stir in between every 5 minutes, while the last 5 minutes make sure the rice is cooked r not, if not u can cook as ur need...mine took 20 minutes...add the coriander leaves and serve hot!

Prefect with Paneer jalfrezi !! also sending to WYF-Quick Meal by EC of Simple Indian Food..

32 comments:

Trupti said... Reply To This Comment

rice looks delicious & easy to make Priya. Thank you very much for sending this to cfk:rice event

Pooja said... Reply To This Comment

Looking rich Priya..Easy and yummy..

FH said... Reply To This Comment

Excellent! We make Ghee rice like this too. Great entry Priya, looks delicious! :)

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious rice Priya...never made this rice in microwave...thanks for sharing this recipe..kalakureenga :)

Ramya Vijaykumar said... Reply To This Comment

Rice with coconut milk should make it creamy and tasty...

Nandinis food said... Reply To This Comment

Rice is delicious priya! Easy and yum . Nice entries.

Sum Raj said... Reply To This Comment

woo microwave cashew rice sounds interesting..will try this..looks awesome..

Cham said... Reply To This Comment

I too never cooked rice, just because fear of messing my microwa and the cleaning work! Looks tasty Priya!

Priya Sriram said... Reply To This Comment

Looks delicious Priya! Cashew rice and paneer side dish would be awesome for lunch! :)

VIDYA VENKY said... Reply To This Comment

lovely rice...looks delicious

Pavithra Elangovan said... Reply To This Comment

Looking good and delish , looking rich too.

Varsha Vipins said... Reply To This Comment

Amazing..Preparing such yummy rice in MW is awesomePriya..thanks for sharing..:)

Vibaas said... Reply To This Comment

Priya, tell me how many recipes u know...there is probably no repeats in your house and that's why i want to become your neighbour :D Looks yummy! :)

Sowjanya said... Reply To This Comment

easy to whip up really. Delicious cashew rice priya.

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

Thats perfect Priya, how I can forget you...heheh..last entry..cool, you can send more if you like..:))..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy rice...whatever it is I follow microwave method for biriyanis,fried rice and pulaos..the very same 20 minutes :)

Mangala Bhat said... Reply To This Comment

wow! yummy rice variety ...hey u enery queen ..u would have taken my blog name recipes 24 seven u know ...lovely

Uma said... Reply To This Comment

that's a delicious rice Priya! Soooo mouth-watering.

Pooja said... Reply To This Comment

Looks delicious Priya. I too havent tried making in a microwave. Seeing your post has prompted me :)

Medhaa said... Reply To This Comment

very flavourful and simple to make rice, looks great

Indhu said... Reply To This Comment

wwoww... awesome recipe... and I am amazed at how many recipes you churn out... where do you get the energy? :)

chef and her kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely recipe priya...Earlier i use to prepare my rice in microwave only,these days i stopped using and started using rice cooker..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

quick and easy rice looks so tempting that bowl mmmmm yum yum

Parita said... Reply To This Comment

Wow rice with coconut milk and cashews sound too good....rich in taste :)

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

Simply yummy..

Valarmathi Sanjeev said... Reply To This Comment

With coconut milk it should have tasted yummy.

CurryLeaf said... Reply To This Comment

LOVE the rice,cannot believe its made in microwave.Again you surprise me with innovative recipes.

Chutneytales said... Reply To This Comment

Omg..this looks soooo good..I love cashew nuts in rice!

Deepa Hari said... Reply To This Comment

Looks simple and delicious Priya.

Vaishali said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious and cooked in the microwave! Can this get any better, Priya?

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

That looks like a quick recipe. Yummy!

EC said... Reply To This Comment

Looks lovely..would have been delicious too..thanks for the entry