Season's Fresh Basmati Rice

13/04/2017

12/04/2016

TIP for COOKING RICE – Let your rice soak before cooking

Cooking rice is super easy: you measure out the rice and water, pour it in a pot, let it boil, lower the heat, and cook it until it’s done. It shouldn’t take longer than half an hour. One trick to improving the look and texture of your rice is letting it sit in a bowl of water and soak for 30 minutes before you put it on the heat. This will let the grains expand and become more absorbent to curries or stews added on top.

12/04/2016

"The first step to enhance basmati rice exports would be to facilitate the rice exporters to export to third world" says the President of UNISAME (Union of Small & Medium Enterprises, Pakistan).

Do you think that it's true in Indian context too? Please comment.

10/04/2016

1 cup of basmati rice has...

• 150 calories
• 35 grams of carbohydrates
• 1 gram of fat
• 3 grams of protein
• 1 gram of fiber
• Thiamin, niacin, and iron

08/04/2016

Food plays an important role in cultural celebrations. The traditional items not only satiate the taste buds, but also teach people life lessons, owing to the various ingredients used to prepare them.

07/04/2016

HOW TO MAKE YOUR BASMATI RICE YELLOW
Learn it here.

As luck would have it, in the years to come, I had to describe the dish many times over, to many people. And so I adopted a simple shortcut: I called it “yellow pulav”. It is another matter altogether

07/04/2016

Although many of our classic American side dishes are somewhat boring and are seldom in the spotlight, there is one that is very often the main focus at a meal. That would be rice — white rice, brown rice, wild

06/04/2016

Try this international version of Biryani by a renowned international chef.

Indian dish has chicken, veggies, brown basmati rice

03/04/2016

The supply of basmati paddy is expected to witness some moderation as farmers are likely to shift away from basmati, given the non-remunerative prices in the last two crop cycles.

03/04/2016

By volume, the share of basmati rice is around 6% in 2014-15, even as by value, basmati rice exports account for 57% in 2014-15, of India's total rice exports