Green Rice Recipe

This fried green rice recipe is very different and you would rarely see this kind of recipe before. since in this recipe, green vegetables are used including green chilies, spring onions and green garlic. Use of fresh garlic leaves would enhance the flavor and smell of this green fried rice. This green fried rice is prepared in just 30 minutes and is best to serve for 2-3 persons.

Ingredients:

2 cup rice of good quality (soaked in water for half hour)
8-10 spring onions (chopped green and white part separately)
1/2 cup green garlic (chopped)
10 green chilies (chopped)
2 cinnamon sticks
2 green cardamoms
1 black cardamom
4 cloves
2 bay leaves
Salt to taste
1/2 cup unsalted butter or ghee
2 cup chicken stock
Hot water as required

Cooking Instructions:

1. Take a deep sauce pan and fry cloves, cinnamon sticks, cardamoms, bay leaves and white parts of spring onions, together in butter or ghee for 3-4 minutes until onions become light golden in color.
2. Now add rice and salt, cook with the fried ingredients on medium flame for 4-5 minutes and stir continuously so that rice fry evenly. After that put green chilies, green garlic and rest of spring onions and mix them well in the rice.
3. Mix hot water and chicken stock in a bowl and add this mixture to the rice so that rice would dip completely in the water and its level should approximately half inch above the surface of rice.
4. Add salt according to your taste and mix, cover the pan and let the rice cook on high flame for 5-8 minutes until water absorbs in the rice. When water seems to be almost dry, reduce flame to very low and let it cook for further 5-10 minutes until rice become tender. Also stir few times in between so that rice would cook evenly. Take out the rice in a beautiful serving platter and serve it with any curry of your choice.