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Perfect Ghee Rice Recipe with step by step pictures. This is made with Basmati Rice and Whole Spices. Nei Choru has a subtle aroma of ghee and has lots of cashews and raisins tossed into it. ghee rice gets it final touch of fried onions taste amazing with chicken curry.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. About Ghee Rice

2. Ghee Rice | Ghee Rice Recipe | Wedding Style Nei Choru Recipe

3. Ghee Rice Recipe step by step pictures

4. Seeraga Samba Nei Choru Recipe | Ghee Rice Using Seera Samba Rice

5. Tips & Tricks

Ghee Rice

I was looking for a wedding style ghee rice recipe for a long time, finally got it from my aunty and when i tried it, the rice turned out to be delicious. I loved it to the core and the rice turned out to be perfectly flavourful.

About Ghee Rice

Ghee Rice is a popular dish made with either basmati rice or seera samba rice. The rice is flavoured with ghee, coriander leaves, mint leaves and fried onion. This dish is also called as nei choru and is very popular all over south indian specially in muslim community and weddings.

Ghee rice is usually accompanied with chicken curry or mutton curries.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Ingredients for Ghee Rice

Oil - ¼ cup
Cardamom / Yelakai - 6 crushed
Black Cumin Seeds / Shahi Jeera - 2 tsp
Brinji ilai / Pandan Leaves - 2
Basmati Rice - 2 cup
Coconut Milk - 2 cups
Water - 1.5 cup
Salt to taste
Green Chillies - 2 slit
Onion - 2 large sliced thinly

How to make Ghee Rice Step by Step

Step 1:

Wash and soak basmati rice for 30 mins. Grind all the ingredients to a smooth puree, set aside.

Step 2:

Heat ¼ cup oil in a pressure cooker, add in cardamom, cumin and let them sizzle. Now add in drained rice and fry it for 6 to 7 mins till the rice is nicely toasted. Add in the ground masala and fry it for few mins so the masala is nicely coated with rice.

Step 3:

Now add in coconut milk, water, salt, green chillies and mix well. Bring it to a boil. simmer the flame, cook covered for 1 whistle, then put the pressure cooker over a tawa and let it cook on very low heat for 15 mins.

Step 4:

When the rice is cooking, make the topping. Heat oil for deep frying, add in cashews and fry till golden, now add in onions and fry till golden as well. Remove it and set aside.

Step 5:

Add in curry leaves and fry till golden, drain and set aside. Now add in coriander leaves and fry till golden, drain and set aside. Add in mint leaves and fry till golden. Drain and set aside.

Step 6:

Once the rice is cooked, open it and fluffy it lightly. Now spoon this in a large bowl and let it cool lightly, now add the fried things over the rice and fluff it up. Serve with any curries.

Ghee Rice Recipe step by step pictures

Measure rice in a bowl

Wash it and soak for 30 mins

Take all the ingredients for grinding

Take all the ingredients in a blender

Puree till smooth

Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add in cardamom, cumin seeds

Add in brinji leaves

Add in drained rice

now comes the important part, you have to keep frying the rice

fry and toast the rice for 2 mins

Now add in pureed masala

toast it well so the masala coats the rice..it will take around 5 to 6 mins

now you can see each grains is nicely coated with the masala

Add in coconut milk

and some water

mix well

add in salt

add in green chillies

mix well

bring it to a boil and cook for 5 mins..Now cover the cooker and cook for 1 whistle

Now place the cooker over a tawa and cook on low heat for 15 mins

Now make the fried things

Heat oil in a kadai for deep frying

Add in cashews and fry till golden..you can remove it and set aside

But i added onions along with it as well

Fry till golden

Now it is done

Drain and set aside

Now add curry leaves in the oil

fry till crispy

drain and set aside

Now take coriander leaves

fry till crispy..remove it and set aside

now add in mint leaves

fry till crispy

Done

Now the rice is done

Remove it to a bowl

add the topping over the rice

Add in ghee

mix well

Serve

Seeraga Samba Nei Choru Recipe | Ghee Rice Using Seera Samba Rice

Seeraga Samba Ghee Rice - Seeraga Samba Nei Choru Recipe. Easy seera samba ghee rice or nei choru which taste so yummy with any side dish like chicken curry or mutton curry. You can serve with any veg kurma too. Seeraga samba rice has a very unique aroma to it. It taste super yummy and so flavourful. The aroma of this rice is so good and it can go well with any side dishes.

INGREDIENTS FOR NEI CHORU

Seera Samba Rice - 1 cup
Coconut Oil - 2 tblsp
Ghee - 2 tblsp
Fennel Seeds / Saunf / Sombu - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
Cinnamon / Pattai - 1
Cardamom / Yelakai - 4
Cloves / Krambu - 3
Bay Leaf - 1
Onion - 1 large sliced thinly
Green Chillies - 3 to 4
Garam masala powder - 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Coconut Milk - 1 cup
Water - ½ cup

INSTRUCTIONS FOR NEI CHORU

Wash and soak seera samba rice for 30 mins.
Heat oil in a cooker. Add whole spices.
Add onions and chillies and saute till golden.
Add in rice and mix well.
Add coconut milk, water, salt, garam masala powder and mix well.
Bring it to a boil and cook on a low heat for 15 mins.
Take it off the heat and take it in a bowl.
Add ghee and mix well
Serve.

Pictorial:

1)Take seera samba rice, wash it well and soak for 30 min.

2)Soak for 30 mins.

2)Take all your spices

3)Heat coconut oil in a pressure cooker

4)Add whole spices

5)Fry for a min.

8)Add onions

9)Add in green chillies. I used banana pepper, since i ran out of normal chillies

10)Saute them for 5 mins or so.

11)Add in rice.

12)Mix well.

13)Add in coconut milk.

14)Add water

15)Mix well.

16)Add in garam masala powder.

17)Add in salt.

18)Cook till rice is done.

19)Add ghee

20)Mix well.

21)Serve

Tips & Tricks

There are few steps required to make the perfect ghee rice.

1) Wash and soak rice for a good 30 mins
2)Roast the drained rice well in oil so it is coated with oil and gets dry with no water content.
3)Now add in the ground masala and toast it well so the rice gets nicely coated with the masala. It will take around 5 to 7 mins.
4)Add the required amount of water content.
5)Cook it just for 1 whistle, and put the whole cooker over a tawa on low heat for 15 mins so the rice gets cooked to perfection.

Comments

My Life in the Charente

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This sounds so delicious but I bet I cannot find the ingredients here! Hope you are well Diane

Sowmia pragash

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Flavorful and perfectly cooked ghee Rice.

roopa yadav

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@My Life in the Charente .....
Diane I think you can find these ingredients in Charente. This is a great recipe. Try it. Omit the ingredients that aren't available but do give it a try

roopa yadav

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Love ghee rice Aarthi .. . Will definitely try your recipe. Love

Rupani Shah

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This looks so tempting! I have been a regular reader on your website and must say the recipes are wonderful. I am soon going to try this ghee rice recipe with my favourite Gowardhan ghee and would definitely share my experience here.

Neha

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Wow...

It looks so yummy...

I wish I could try this once...

Sofia

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Thanks for sharing this recipe. This food is so yummy and tasty..

Aswathy

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Thanks aarthi for the recipe, nice one, I tried, perfect

Indian Wedding Invitations

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This food is so yummy!!!!

Sakthinathan R

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Worked perfectly 👍 fine for me, Thank you...

PadmaRam

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Hi.. the ghee rice was perfect and friends & family loved it so much. Thank you so much for the recipe 👍😊