Malabar Nei Choru/ Ghee Rice
Malabar Nei Choru/ Ghee Rice

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, malabar nei choru/ ghee rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Malabar Nei Choru/ Ghee Rice is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Malabar Nei Choru/ Ghee Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook malabar nei choru/ ghee rice using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Malabar Nei Choru/ Ghee Rice:
  1. Prepare 3/4 cups Basmati Rice
  2. Get 1/2 cup thinly sliced Onions
  3. Take 1.5 cups Water
  4. Prepare 1-2 Cloves
  5. Get 2 Green Cardamom
  6. Get 1/4 tsp Ginger grated
  7. Take 1 Bay Leaf
  8. Take 1/2 inch Cinnamon
  9. Get 1/2 tbsp Raisins
  10. Make ready 3 tbsp Ghee
  11. Make ready 6 Cashews
  12. Make ready to taste Salt
  13. Take 2 tbsp Coriander leaves to garnish

Ghee Rice or nei chor as it is commonly called is a famous delicacy of south India and is extremely easy to make. It is a speciality of the Malabar coastal region in Kerala. The rice is roasted in ghee with cardamom, cloves and cinnamon and cooked to perfection and finally garnished with roasted cashews. This is the Malabar version of making ghee rice, which is called 'nei choru' in Malayalam.

Steps to make Malabar Nei Choru/ Ghee Rice:
  1. Clean and soak rice for 30 minutes. Drain excess water and keep it aside
  2. Heat 2 tbsp ghee in a pan,fry cashews until golden brown, keep it aside.
  3. Now add raisins and saute until puffed up. Drain and keep it aside
  4. Now add the onions in same pan. Saute onions until crisp and brown. Drain and remove the onions. Keep it aside
  5. Add 1 tbsp ghee in same pan. add all whole spices and saute until aromat
  6. Add rice and saute for 3-4 minutes.
  7. Add water with salt and mix well. Water should be slightly salty
  8. Simmer, cover and cook until water is absorbed and rice is done
  9. Gently fluff the rice. Garnish the rice with fried cashews, onions, raisins and coriander leaves.
  10. Serve warm with curry and raita

The only variation to my recipe is that I used a cup of milk in addition to water to get a creamier and richer consistency. But you can make it omitting the milk and just adding water. Check out our delicious recipe board. Hope you will try this Ney Choru-Ghee Rice/Malabar Ghee Rice-Nei Choru and enjoy as much we did. finally, enjoy ghee rice with kurma. Subscribe to our Youtube ChannelClick here to Subscribe our Youtube Channel and stay updated with our latest video recipes.

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