Kuska Rice

Do you run out of vegetables once in a while and wonder what you could do to ruffle up for a quick lunch?  This happens now and then in my kitchen, I would not have any veggies and be in a dilemma on what to cook. So here is something that is easy, quick and very comforting. Kuska Rice is a mildly flavored biryani rice made with just onions, tomatoes, some herbs and coconut milk. This is traditional Muslim Ramadan food, and they add the chicken mix to this kuska rice to make chicken biryani.

Kuska Rice

Ingredients

Recipe modified from here
 
Serves - 2
Spice Level - Mild and Flavorful
Prep Time - 15 min
Cook time - 15 min

Basmati Rice - 1 cup
Water - 1.25 cups
Coconut milk - 1/4 cup
Ghee - 1 Tbsp
Cardamom - 2
Cloves - 2
Bay leaf - 1
Cinnamon - 1 inch stick
Oil - 1 Tbsp
Onion - 1 , chopped finely
Tomato - 1 , chopped finely
Ginger-Garlic paste - 1 Tsp
Salt - as per need

To grind to a paste

Mint Leaves - a handful
Coriander Leaves - a handful
Green chilli -2


How do you do it

1. Firstly soak the biryani rice in water for 10 minutes. Once done, drain and keep aside.

2. Grind the ingredients under "to grind to a paste"  with little water and keep aside.

3. Heat ghee in a kadai, add bay-leaf,cardamom,cloves,cinnamon and saute for 30 sec. Add the rice now and saute until you get a nice aroma, for 2 minutes. Once done transfer to the rice cooker vessel.

4. Heat oil in a kadai. Add the chopped onion , GG paste and saute till onions are translucent. Add tomatoes now and saute until they become mushy and are cooked well. Now add in the ground paste, little salt and saute for few minutes until the raw smell of the paste vanishes. Transfer this to the rice cooker vessel and mix well with rice.

5. Add 1.25 cups of water and 1/4 cup coconut milk to the rice vessel, add required salt and mix well. The correct amount of salt needed while cooking any variety rice is such that you should be able to taste the salt in the water a little more than the proper level. Cook this rice for 12-15 minutes. Flavourful Kuska rice is ready.

We had kuska rice with a gobi manchurian and cucumber raitha.

 

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