Sunday, May 10, 2015

Brown Rice - Parsi Style

Parsi Style Brown rice is one among the traditional rice dish served along with their famous Dhansak,a Parsi gravy. Most of the Parsi's sunday's favourite is this Brown rice and Dhansak and even for few this Brown rice means Special occasions. I crossed many delicious Parsi style brown rice, but however i want to stick with the traditional one, obviously i picked this brown rice from here. I just loved the spice mixture used in this dish and this brown rice is quite easy to make. Obviously i grinded up the spice mixture before starting the cooking process and the spice mixture gives an excellent flavour to this beautiful mildy sweet brown rice.


The brown colour of this rice is achieved by caramelising the sugar or jaggery, hence this rice have a beautiful caramel colour. I used sugar and jaggery for making my Parsi brown rice, obviously the jaggery with sugar gives an excellent deep colour to this rice instead of bit light caramel colour. However we loved this brown rice with spicy chicken curry, eventhough i want to serve this rice with vegetarian dhansak. I'll be making this combination soon, as my kids loved this sweet rice. Few Parsi style brown rice goes for onions, i couldnt resist to add some onions in my rice eventhough the original recipe didnt went for onions.
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2cups Rice
1no Onion (big and sliced)
2tbsp Sugar
A small chunk of Jaggery
2 Cardamoms
3 Bayleaves
2sticks Cinnamon
2tsp Jeera
6 Cloves
Oil
Salt

Grind the cardamoms,bayleaves, cinnamon stick, jeera and cloves as powder, i grinded mine as powder, you can grind them as bit coarse powder if you want.

Heat a large pot with oil, add the sugar and jaggry and let the sugar becomes brown in colour, be patient and take care not burn.

Add the onions and masala powder, cook for few minutes.

Add 4cups of water and bring it to boil.

Add enough salt, rice and cook in medium flame and then simmer until the rice gets well cooked.

Serve hot with a spicy side dish..

14 comments:

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

That is such an elegant and simple rice dish...

Angie's Recipes said... Reply To This Comment

A simple and delicious side dish, Priya.

Recipe world said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy n flavorful pot meal!

Saraswathi Ganeshan said... Reply To This Comment

Parsi style brown rice looks super tempting!! great to have it with spicy gravy!!

meena said... Reply To This Comment

The rice sounds more like a sweet version than savory.Must have tasted really yumm I feel like the meeti chawal.

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

Sounds interesting Priya..didn't realize brown rice is the colour and not type..lol..

Pavani said... Reply To This Comment

Perfectly made Parsi brown rice. It sounds so flavorful and delicious.

Sandhiya said... Reply To This Comment

Caramalized sugar with rice, sounds very interesting.Loved all your post under parsi cuisine.

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

Sounds very interesting. Never tried jaggery n rice this way.

Varada's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

The rice is flavored just right to go with a spicy gravy. Nice one.

Chef Mireille said... Reply To This Comment

this is the perfect side dish to any meal

Sneha's Recipe said... Reply To This Comment

I love the color of this caramelized rice.

Suma Gandlur said... Reply To This Comment

That is one flavorful rice with perfect color.

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said... Reply To This Comment

I have made this before and love the sweetness of the rice!