Ghee Rice

Ghee Rice

Ingredients

• 2 cups uncooked rice

• 1 medium sized onion, sliced finely

• 3 tablespoon ghee
  

• 1 cinammon

• 1 clove

• 1 cardamom
  

• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds

• 1 tsp chopped cashewnuts

• 3 green chillies, minced

• 1/2 tsp ginger paste

• 1/2 tsp garlic paste

• Salt to taste

• 2 tsp chopped coriander leaves for garnishing

Method

1. Heat the ghee in a pan and add the cinammon, cloves, cashewnuts, cumin and cardamom.
2. Fry for 10 seconds and add the ginger-garlic paste.
3. Fry for another 10 seconds and then add the green chillies and onion.
4. Fry till the onions turn light brown.
5. Now add the rice and salt to taste.
6. Let the rice fry for about 5-6 minutes and get coated with the ghee mixture.
7. Now add 4 cups of water and pressure-cook or cook in the microwave till the rice is completely done.
   
8. You can also cook it on the stovetop, by keeping it covered on a low flame.
   
9. Serve hot garnished with chopped coriander leaves.

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Gandhi's Restaurant at Brickfields

Gandhi's Restaurant at Brickfields

What a better way to start this blog than writing about my dinner experience on Mother's Day? As usual, we were undecided on our destination for our dinner for the night. So, I suggested Gandhi's Restaurant at Brickfields. Location? If you are coming from the Central Market area, it is located along the same road as you turn in to your left immediately after the Petronas station. Though the restaurant is big and has ample sitting place, it is not a posh place. It is more for the middle class group, affordable, even for daily meals. And another important criteria that made me choose this place is the ample availability of parking spaces.

This place offers vegetarian food only. But instead of the common vegetarian menu, here they offer wide variety of dishes. Both, Indian style and Chinese style cooking is available. They cook as you make your orders and not pre-cooked like in other restaurants of similar capacity. The only complaint that I have is that you have to wait quite while before your orders comes to the table.

We ordered Chicken Masala, Mutton Varuval, Claypot Tauhu and Mixed Vegetables. The first 2 dishes were quite spicy for me, while the rest were more of Chinese style cooking, with ketchup and corn flour added. For a total of 6 adult who dined, the bill came up to RM65.00, which is quite reasonable if you ask me.

Would I go again? Yes and I'd recommend you guys to try out too.

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