Tahiri Recipe-Punjabi Rice Recipe

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Tahiri Recipe-Punjabi Rice Recipe

Ingredients:

250gm Basmati rice

2 large onions

10 flakes garlic

8 green cardamoms

6 cloves

2 bay leaves

3 small cinnamon

12 pepercorns(optional)

1 t sp cumin seeds

1 t sp chilli powder

1 1/2 t sp garam masala

salt to taste

2 cups(tender) shelled peas

4 tb sp ghee

Preparation:

Wash and souk the rice for 15- 20 minutes.

grind the garlic & onions to a paste.

Method:

Heat ghee, splutter the cardamoms, cloves, cinnamon and curnin seeds. Add garlic-ginger paste & fry on a slow fire till goldan. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir-fry peas start popping. Add the drained rice & carefully fry again till the rice is coated with masala. Add sufficient water to come upto 3 cm above the surface of the rice. Cover & allow to boil quickly on a high flame & cook till holes appear on the surface. Reduce the heat & allow to cook till

rice is tender & each grain separate & the water absorbed.