Ghee Rice/Neichoru
Posted On 07-Apr-2007 at 9:26 AM by Seena
Ghee rice with chicken roast, salad and Kachambar
Ingredients
Basmati rice - 1 cup
How to prepare
Onion(medium) - 1 no
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Cinnamon(Karugapatta) - 1/2" piece
Cloves(Grambu) - 1 no
Cardamom(Elakka) - 1 no
Fennel seeds(Perinjeerakam) - A pinch
Water - 2 cups
Salt - As reqd
Salt - As reqd
How to prepare
1)Soak rice in water for 30 mins.
2)Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel.3)Add fennel seeds.
4)After a few seconds, add onion and stir, till, it turns transparent.5)Add cinnamon, cloves and cardamom and stir.
6)Add 2 cups of water.:- For 1 cup of rice, add 2 cups of water.7)Add enough salt and mix well.
8)Allow it to boil.9)Add washed rice and let it boil.
10)Cover and cook on a low flame.11)When there is no water, remove and keep the lid closed, until rice is cooked well.:- Serve with parippu (dal) curry , chicken or mutton curry, pickle and curd.
Kozhi varutharacha curry/ chicken curry in fried coconut gravy with potatoes is the curry usually prepares with Neichor.
How to make Kachambar
Kachambar - Chop 1 medium size onion, tomato and green chilly. Add 1/2 tea spoon chilly powder and 1 table spoon vinegar into it. Add 2 table spoons of water and enough salt. Mix well.
Kachambar - Chop 1 medium size onion, tomato and green chilly. Add 1/2 tea spoon chilly powder and 1 table spoon vinegar into it. Add 2 table spoons of water and enough salt. Mix well.
Wow!!! the recipe looks so yum. this reminds me of a time when a friend's mother took over my kitchen and converted my rice into 'neyychor'. I had never made neyychor till then.
I have to check rest of the recipes on your blog. Will come back.
nice recipe... thanks seena...happy easter.
A delicious looking spread!I love neichor too!
Hello,Reena, Maneka, Sumitha,
Thanks for visiting my site..
Reena, it is very easy to make neichor. Try it again.
Thanks for the nice recipe Seena.I made neychor with kozhi varutharacha curry yday..It was really good..and tasty..
I have a doubt.The neychor which i made was slight yellowish in colour..is it because of the ghee used? The rice which we get in hotels is white in colour ,still they have lot of ghee in them..can u explain?
Dear Saleena,
It may be due to the color of ghee as you said. Which brand of ghee you use?
I used RKG Ghee...
Saleena,
It is good to use other ghees like vegetable ghees for preparing rice dishes like biryani and ghee rice.Are you in UAE? I usually use Aseel vegetable ghee for preparing such rice dishes. Since RKG is made from milk fat (butter), we use only a little amount of it while preparing biryani, that too in the last layering period only.So try other ghees (not pure ghee) next time.OK? Forgot to thank you in the previous comment..:)
Okies Seena,lemme try with vegetable ghee as u said the next time, and surely let u know the result..thanks a lot..:) no am not in UAE,am in singapore ..