Navratri Day 3 Oct 2024: Ghee Rice🩶

Navratri Day 3:🩶 Grey symbolizes strength and resilience, signifying the victory of knowledge over ignorance.🩶 This colour is dedicated to Goddess Chandraghanta🙏🌹

She is the married form of Goddess Parvati. She adorns herself with a half moon placed on her forehead in the shape of a bell. After getting married to Lord Shiva, that's the reason she is known as Maa Chandraghanta. She establishes justice and discipline. The colour of her body is golden bright and rides on a lion.🙏

GHEE RICE (Navratri Special)

Ghee rice is a popular South Indian dish made without any vegetables.

It includes aromatic spices often used in Indian cuisine, cashews and raisins for extra flavor and great textures.

YouTube link:

https://youtube.com/shorts/_YanfSH3hCg?si=FYQcN2zKiE5XVect

Ingredients:

· Water – 1 cup

· Basmati Rice – ½ cup

· Ghee – 1.5 tbsp

· Cumin seeds – ¾ tsp

· Cloves – 3-4

· Cardamom pods – 1-2

· Star Anise – 1

· Cinnamon sticks – 1 inch

· Mace flower - 1

· Peppercorns – 4-5 nos.

· Bay Leaf - 1

· Salt to taste

· Fried Cashewnuts & Raisins – 1.5 tbsp

Method:

· Wash and soak the basmati rice for ½ an hour.

· Now take a sauce pan boil water. Now add the soaked and drained rice, add little ghee. Let it boil.

· Once it boils, cover it and let the rice cook on low flame for 8-10 mins. Turn off the flame and let the rice rest.

· After 5 mins use a fork to loosen the rice. Let it cool completely.

· Now take a pan, add ghee and all the spices. Once aromatic add the cooled rice and salt, mix it gently for 3-4 mins.

· Turn off the flame and add the fried cashewnuts and raisins.

· Ghee Rice is ready to be served.