Navratri Special Recipe: Curried rice

Serve this pleasing golden rice with tofu or with steamed vegetables. Basmati and jasmine are flavorful long-grain rices that are sole in healthy food stores and some supermarkets. Regular long-grain brownish-red rice could also be used.

Ingredients

• 1/4 crater unfeeling broth 


• 1 cup dry brownish-red basmati rice 


• 1/3 crater slivered almonds 


• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 


• 1/8 teaspoon belligerent cardamom 


• 1/8 teaspoon belligerent ginger 


• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 


• 1/2 teaspoon salt 


• 1/2 crater golden raisins 


• 2 cups hot water 


• 1 crater solidified immature peas, thawed

Method

Heat unfeeling gas in a vast pot. Add rice and prepare over middle heat, stirring constantly, until rice becomes ambiguous and rather chalky-looking, about 2 minutes. 

Add almonds, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, turmeric, and salt. Cook 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in raisins and hot water. Cover and cook until rice is proposal and all a H2O is absorbed, about 60 minutes.Stir in peas only before serving.

Per 1-cup serving:

• 223 calories, 5.4 g protein


• 37.7 g carbohydrate


• 8.6 g sugar


• 6.4 g sum fat


• 25.7% calories from fat


• 5.5 g fiber


• 218 mg sodium

Source: Healthy Eating for Life for Women by Kristine Kieswer; recipe by Jennifer Raymond, M.S., R.D./The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

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Navratri Special Recipe: Curried rice