Curried rice with vegetables

This curried rice is an Indian-style flavored basmati rice recipe loaded with vegetables. It's a great side dish to be served with Indian curries, and dals, or enjoyed with a simple salad or raita. It gets ready in just 35 minutes.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Indian, North Indian

Diet Gluten Free, Vegetarian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Servings

Calories 396kcal

Author Vandana Chauhan

Equipment

1 cooking pot with lid

Ingredients

1 cup long grain basmati rice
2.5 cups chopped vegetables cauliflower, carrot, green beans, potatoes, green peas
1 medium red onion finely chopped
2 cloves garlic minced
½ inch piece of ginger finely chopped
1 finely chopped green chili optional
¼ cup fresh cilantro finely chopped
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 bay leaf
½ tablespoon coriander powder
¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
¼ teaspoon garam masala
¼ teaspoon kashmiri red chili powder
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
Salt to taste
1 tablespoon ghee or any cooking oil of choice
3 cups water

Instructions

Heat ghee in a cooking pot. Add cumin seeds and bay leaf. Saute for a few minutes or until the spices become fragrant.
Add chopped onion and cook until the onion becomes translucent.
Add minced garlic. Saute for a few seconds or until the raw smell of garlic goes away.
Add chopped vegetables, ginger, and green chilies. Cook for 4-5 minutes.
Add salt and all the powdered spices. Saute for a minute.
Rinse rice well and add to the pot. Saute rice with vegetables for about 2 minutes.
Add water, mix everything, and cover the pot.
Cook covered for around 15-20 minutes or until the rice is cooked.
Don't remove the lid for around 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes, remove the lid, add chopped cilantro to the pot, and gently fluff with a fork.
Serve hot.

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Notes

I have used long-grain Indian basmati rice to make curried rice and that's the best choice for this recipe. You can also use jasmine rice but the water-rice ratio and time to cook rice will change in that case.
If you don't have all the vegetables that I have used, you can skip some of them.
You can also use other vegetables like broccoli or mushrooms in this dish. Even soya chunks taste great in curry rice.
Though not a traditional way of cooking rice in India, you can use vegetable stock instead of water to cook curried rice.
You can also add nuts and raisins to it.
Generally, curried rice is cooked in ghee which makes this rice dish taste even better. But you can also use butter or olive oil to make it.
More recipe tips and tricks are shared in the post above. Please refer them to make this recipe.

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