Thursday, January 20, 2011

Salsa and rice…

Chris is a Salsa Instructor in the United Arab Emirates…he says brown rice is healthy for salsa dancers…do you have a brown rice recipe to share..share as a video on my blog…

…Oh…and here is a yellow rice recipe..with Basmati Rice…

Yellow Rice – from Ruwani Dissanayake

NGREDIENTS:
1½ cup Basmati rice - washed
1 onion – sliced
5 cloves of garlic – chopped
3 teaspoons margarine or butter
¼ teaspoon turmeric
5 cloves - crushed
5 cardamoms - crushed
2.5cm cinnamon stick
1.5 cups water
Salt to taste

DIRECTIONS:
Heat the saucepan on medium heat and add 2 teaspoons margarine.
When margarine is melted add onions, garlic & ½ teaspoon salt, fry it for nearly 10 minutes or till you gets the little golden brown.
Then add the rest of the margarine, 1/2 cup water, turmeric, cloves, cardamoms, cinnamon & 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix it well and add the rice and again put 1 cup of water.
Cover the saucepan and keep it for nearly 10 minutes or till the rice is cooked.

SERVING:
You can have Yellow rice with potato/lentils curry, chicken/fish/sea food curry, any kind of salad or any thing you like most.

…. Enjoy :-)

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