Sweet brown rice recipe/Meetha chawal with gur
Sweet brown rice recipe/Meetha chawal with gur is a popular North Indian rice-based side dish. Made with brown rice, dry fruits, spices and jaggery it is mildly sweetened in taste.
Ingredients
- 150 gm rice
- 300 ml water
- 1½ tbsp ghee
- 2 tbsp cashews
- 2 tbsp almonds
- 2 tbsp raisins
- 2 tbsp watermelon seeds
- 1 piece cinnamon stick
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
- ¼ tsp nutmeg powder
- ¼ tsp black pepper powder
- 75 gm jaggery
- 50 ml hot water
Instructions
- Wash rice, add water and soak them for about half an hour.
- Take a pressure cooker, add ghee, wait till it warm.
- Now add dry fruits and roast them till they become nice golden in colour. Transfer to a plate.
- Then add cinnamon, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and black pepper powder, mix well. Add soaked rice and once again mix well. Close the lid and pressure cook up to 8 whistles on medium high flame.
- Mix crushed jaggery and hot water in a bowl and keep aside till it dissolves.
- Once the pressure is released, open the lid of pressure cooker and check if rice is cooked well or not. If seems little hard add 2-3 tbsp water and pressure cook again for 1-2 whitsles.
- Rice is well cooked, add roasted dry fruits and jaggery water mixture to it.
- Swtich on the flame on cook rice on high flame till all the moisture absorbs. Off the flame cover the pressure cooker and leave it for 5-7 minutes.
- After 5 minutes, serve warm sweet rice with raita or curd. ENJOY!
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Notes
- Brown rice took a longer time to cook, so cook it patiently till it becomes soft.
- Add jaggery surup only when the rice is cooked.
- You can add more or less jaggery according to your taste.
- You can also add a little turmeric powder to give it a yellow colour without using any