Hi friends! Welcome to easy and home style cooking. I am Mrs Ragini. Today I'm going to share a very simple rice recipe.
Anywhere in AP or Telangana state you will find this cooked for any festivals or special occasions and this dish is Bagara rice.
Let's start to know how to make this simple bagara rice recipe. We are going to use Basmati rice
Soak the basmati rice for 30 mnts. If you soak the rice and cook we get the perfect rice like pearls.
Take a pan add some oil or ghee. Once its hot add all the dry spices like bay leaves, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon stick, shahi jeera, biryani phool, maize and mix well.
Now add roughly chopped onions, salt, green chilli and ginger garlic paste and cook nicely till the raw flavor of ginger garlic is gone.
Now add mint and mix, add chopped coriander and mix again.
Once this is slightly cooked, add water and increase the flame, check the taste of the salt and adjust accordingly before adding the rice to the water.
Once the water starts to boil, add the rice and mix gently. Initially keep the flame on high and once the moisture starts to decrease reduce the flame to low and cook on slow flame till done. Keep the lid closed.
The rice is cooked perfectly without any moisture. You can see the grainy texture of the rice. Switch off the flame.
Rest it for 5 mnts and serve hot and tasty bagara rice.
This goes excellent with any type of curry.