Sunday, October 30, 2016

Delicious and easy- to- make Brown Rice recipes

Pak Choy Brown Rice, Chinese style
Instead of eating with guilt each time that you have a spoonful of rice, it is very important to have your thoughts clear on this. That, to keep your blood sugar levels under control, you will not touch white, polished rice, come what may. And that, you will still enjoy eating rice by opting for unpolished rice or brown rice. Once you commit yourself to this, you will develop taste for this rice. In fact, brown rice is so superior to taste that you easily wean off white rice. One of the common complaints against brown rice is that it takes longer to cook. Circumvent that by soaking the rice for an hour or two, In fact, the Ambemohar variety of brown rice that I use, does not need soaking at all. Secondly, make a larger quantity or brown rice than required and store it in the fridge. This way, you need not go through the hassle of making it everyday. And instead of having it plain, you can make nice recipes out of it. Remember, do not stuff yourself too much with  rice. Add in lot of vegetables so that the percentage of rice consumed is less, overpowered with vegetables.
So, here are some recipes, that makes your rice that much more nutritious and delicious.

Pak Choy Brown Rice

Ingredients
Brown Rice - two cups (cooked)
Pak Choy - one bunch 
Soya Sauce (as per your taste) 
Green chilli sauce (as per your taste)
Pepper powder
Til (Sesame) oil or any other oil you use for cooking
Salt to taste

Method
Chop Pak Choy into strips including the stems. Heal oil in a pan. Add Pak Choy. Stir for a minute or two. Add Brown Rice and all the other ingredients. Mix thoroughly and cover for a couple of minutes. Your delicious Pak Choy Brown Rice is ready to eat. Pak Choy is also called Bak Choy - it is a kind of a Chinese cabbage. It has very little calories it it and has the goodness of protein, fibre and other nutrients. Great for weight loss too. (In case Pak Choy is not available you can alternate with Leeks or Spring Oninons).


Soya Curd Rice

Ingredients
Brown Rice - Cooked - 2 cups
Soya Curd - 2- 3 to tablespoons
Coconut milk -  1/2 Cup
Salt to taste

Method
Take the cooked Brown Rice in a dish. Add Soya Curd and mix well. Add coconut milk to it and again mix well. Add salt as per taste. And there you are - your Curd Rice is ready! You can easily replace the traditional Curd Rice which you make our of milk curd. 

Split Green Moong Dal-Brown Rice Khichadi

Ingredients
Brown Rice - 1 cup uncooked
Split Green Moong Dal - 1/2 cup uncooked.
Green Peas - 100 gms
Tomatoes - 2
Garlic-Ginger paste - 1 tspn
Corriander Powder - 1 tspn
Fresh Corriander leaves - a fistful
Curry leaves - 10-15 leaves
Fresh coconut grated - 2 tbspns
Mustard seeds, cumin seeds (jira seeds), asafoeida (hing) powder, turmeric (haldi) powder, Red chilli powder
Salt to taste

Method
Wash the Brown Rice and Split Green Moong Dal (Chilkewali Moong Dal) and soak for a couple of hours. Cook directly in the pressure cooker. Heat oil in the pressure cooker. Add mustard seeds. When they splutter, add jeera, hing (asafoetida),haldi (turmeric powder), curry leaves and the garlic ginger paste. Stir for just a minute. Drain water from soaked Rice and Dal and add. Stir continuously for three to four minutes. Add tomatoes, coriander powder, red chilli powder and again stir for 2 to 3 minutes. Add green peas and stir for a minute or two. Add four and a half cups of  boiling water (you may add 5 or 6 cups if you want your Khichadi to be semi-solid) and put on the pressure cooker lid. Two whistles on high flame and six to seven whistles on low flame should be enough for your Khichadi to cook. Before serving, garnish with chopped coriander leaves and freshly grated coconut.

Palak (Spinach) - Brown Rice

Ingredients
Palak (Spinach) chopped - 2 cups
Brown Rice - 1 cup cooked
Tomato - 1 big size
Onion - 1 small size
Garlic-Ginger paste (as per your taste)
Green chillies - 1 or 2 pieces

Method
Pressure cook chopped Spinach, chopped Tomato, chopped Onion and chopped Green Chillies together. Just one whistle on high will do, Pour it out in a dish. Let itcool. Run it through the grinder so that it becomes a paste (need not run it through the strainer). Keep aside.. Heat a pan and add brown rice. Add garlic-ginger paste and stir. Add the Spinach paste. Add salt to taste. Stir nicely. Cover it for 3-4 minutes. The green  coloured Pala-Brown Rice is ready to eat.


Note: You can innovate on these recipes by adding different kinds of vegetables. 





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