Brown Rice

Brown Rice

Ingredients:

2 cups basmati rice
2 onions, finely sliced
4 teaspoon sugar
2 inch pieces of cinnamon
6 cloves
salt to taste
4 tablespoons melted ghee

Procedure

1. Soak rice in water for 1/2 hour.
2. Heat oil or ghee in a pan and fry onion in it till brown. Remove pan from fire and drain excess oil.
3. Put sugar in a small pan and brown it over fire till it is very dark brown.
4. Place pan with fried onion back on fire, drain water from rice and add to onion.
Cook, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes or more till rice is nicely fried.
5. Add caramel water and cook 4 or 5 minutes till rice is well blended.
6. Add cinnamon stick, cloves, salt and 3 1/2 cups water. Bring to boil, then cover, lower flame and continue cooking till water is absorbed and rice is cooked.
7. Sprinkle some fried onion over rice before serving.

Serve with Dhansak and kachumbar