We'd asked you, dear readers, to share your tricolour-themed recipes.
Here Rediff reader Ramanunni Nair tells us how to make Tiranga Rice.
Tiranga Rice
Tiranga Rice Photograph: Divya Nair/Rediff.com
Ingredients
- 3 cups basmati rice
- 3 tbsp ghee
- 1 tbsp carrot juice
- 1 tbsp kesari colour
- 50 gm coriander finely chopped
- 50 gm spinach boiled
- Salt as required
Method
- Steam cook rice with salt.
- Make three portions of the rice and keep aside.
For green rice
- Blend spinach and coriander to make a fine paste.
- In a kadhai, heat 1 tbsp ghee.
- Add the ground paste and saute for a minute. Add salt.
- Mix in the rice and switch off the flame.
For orange rice
- In a small bowl, mix carrot juice and kesari colour with 1 tbsp of hot water.
- In a kadhai, heat 1 tbsp ghee.
- Mix in the rice and keep aside. Add salt if necessary.
For white rice
- In a kadhai, heat 1 tbsp ghee.
- Mix in the rice amd keep aside.
For plating
- Take a white plate.
- Grease an even edged cup with ghee or oil.
- Scoop the orange rice in the cup and press it well.
- Place it upside down on the top end of the plate. Tap slowly to make the perfect shape.
- Repeat with white and green rice to look like the colours of tiranga.
- Alternately, you can also simply place the coloured rice one by one, evenly on the plate.
