Rice Pilaf Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Aromatic rice pulav made with basmati rice, whole spices, onions which is cooked in ghee. Perfect rice dish to serve with any spicy curries like chicken tikka masala or butter chicken.
Rice Pilaf
One of my go to rice dishes, specially during weekends when I plan for an elaborate feast of chicken curries and mutton dishes. This is simple yet so flavourful, makes a perfect dish to serve with curries.
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About Rice Pilaf
Rice pilaf is also known as pulao or pulav. It is originated in India but also made in other parts of the world. The pilaf is a mildly flavoured rice dish. Rice is flavoured with ghee, whole spices like cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, bay leaf.
Many recipes doesn't used onions, but I like the sweet onion flavour. But I don't add ginger garlic paste in this recipe, because it might over power the whole spices. This is easy to put together, you can cook this in a pressure cooker or just a regular pot. I prefer cooking in a pot.
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Rice Pilaf Ingredients
Basmati rice - use finest quality basmati rice for this recipe. Since the flavour totally depends on the rice quality and whole spices, try to use the best quality possible. Any aged variety of basmati rice would be good.
Onion - onion adds flavour and taste to the pulao. Make sure to cook them till golden brown to render the sweet flavour from onions.
Whole Spices - I used a combination of Cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper and bay leaves
Ghee - I prefer to cook my pilaf in ghee but you can cook in butter as well.
How to Make Rice Pilaf (Stepwise Pictures)
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| Grab your ingredients |
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| Crackle whole spices in ghee |
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| add in onions |
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| cook till golden brown |
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| add in soaked rice |
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| pour in water |
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| bring to a good boil |
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| cook it |
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| DONE |
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| DIG IN STRAIGHT AWAY |
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Rice Pilaf Recipe | Aromatic Rice Pulao Recipe
Equipment
- Cooking pot
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice-1 cup
- 1 large Onion peeled and sliced thinly
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 3 tbsp Coriander leaves for garnishing
- 2 tsp Salt or to taste
Whole Spices
- 1 stick Cinnamon
- 4 no Cloves
- 4 no Cardamom crushed slightly
- 1 tsp Whole Black Pepper
- 1 no Bay leaf
Instructions
- Wash rice in lots of water and soak it for 30 minutes. Strain in a colander and set aside.
- In a thick bottom pan add ghee and heat it up. Add in cloves, cardamom, bay leaf, pepper, cinnamon and fry for 30 seconds. Add in onions and cook till golden. Add in the rice and fry for 2 min.
- Pour in 2 cups of water and bring that to boil. Once it starts to boil, cover it with a tight fitting lid and let it cook on a very low flame for 10-15 mins. Once it has absorbed all the water, fluff it with a fork and let it stand for 10 min covered.
- Add in lots of coriander and mix well. Serve hot with any curry.
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Mijú
El arroz me gusta!!!
Un saludito
PJ
Looks so delish!I too am doing the same theme 🙂
sabina
Perfect dish for lunchbox...quick and tasty...
jayasree
Rice is cooked to perfection. Simple,aromatic pilaf.
Maria Pilar-COCINICA
Me gusta mucho el arroz basmati y me has enseñado la forma de cocerlo bien. Gracias. La traducción del navegador no es muy buena, pero he podido entender perfectamente.
Feliz verano
Mugdha
flavorfull rice...love wid chicken...:)
lacasitadeazucar
Tiene muy buena pinta.
Dzoli
It is an art to make rice thsi fluffy.And with right ingredients there is nothing to say..just sit down eat and enjoy;)
harini-jaya
good one!
Reshmi Mahesh
Flavorful and yummy...
Suma Gandlur
Love the simple, aromatic rice preparation.
Torviewtoronto
aromatic rice looks delicious
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
wow, that does look very aromatic.
I too have seen her tv episodes 🙂
Cool Lassi(e)
Pulao looks awesome! I can feel the aroma all the way across the world!
Pavani
What a flavorful rice dish. I'm going to try this next time I make pulao. Thanks for sharing.
Gayathri Kumar
Rice looks so inviting..
unnathi veenai
i think salt is not added...
umamahi
akka where did yu get those cook books?plz let me know i wanna buy..:)
Aarthi
@umamahiI got it online
Aarthi
@unnathi veenaiI added salt along with onion, missed that photo