Ribbon rice

Ribbon rice

This colorful rice is made with three different layers alternatively with a rice layer i.e. . . . . minced chicken layer, vegetable mix layer and a chutney layer. Instead of meat you can use mushroom if you want it to be a vegetarian dish.

 

Ingredients

For meat mix

• Minced chicken/meat or Enoki mushroom- 200g
• Onion sliced-1cup
• Tomatoes chopped-1/2 cup
• Kashmiri chili powder-1/2 tsp
• Cumin powder-1/4 tsp
• Ginger garlic crushed-2tsp
• Chopped mint leaves-1tbsp.
• Oil -1tbsp
• Salt to taste

For vegetable mix

• Brocoli-100g
• Carrots-100g
• Cabbage-100g
• Beans-100g
• Frozen peas-100g
• Oil-1tbsp.
• Salt to taste

For chutney mix

• Grated coconut-1 cup
• Garlic-4 cloves
• Green chilies-2
• Coriander leaves-2tsp.
• Salt to taste
• Lime juice-2tsp

 

For rice

• Long grain basmati rice-3 cups
• Oil – 2 tbsp.
• Cloves-4
• Cardamom-4
• Cinnamon sticks an inch sized-2
• Coconut milk (thin)-6 cups
• Pomegranate and chopped coriander leaves for garnishing

Method

Rice

• Wash the rice, drain it and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a large bottom pan, add the whole masalas and stir till the masalas leave their smell.
• Add rice and sauté for a couple of minutes, add coconut milk and cook it.

Meat/mushroom mix

• Cook the meat/chicken or mushrooms with salt and turmeric powder.
• Heat oil in a large pan sauté onion for a couple of minutes, add crushed ginger and garlic and sauté till onion changes to golden brown.
• Add chili powder and sauté for a couple of minutes and add the tomatoes.
• Stir till the tomatoes gets mushy and add the cooked meat.
• Stir till everything is combined well, finally add cumin powder and chopped mint leaves, stir well.

Chutney mix

• Grind together all the chutney ingredients and mix it with lime juice.

Vegetable mix

• Cut the vegetables thinly and sauté it with salt till cooked (sprinkle water if necessary but make sure that the color of the vegetable is not changed).

Take a large baking dish, spray it with butter or cooking oil.

Spread ¼ of rice and top it with meat or mushroom mix.

Spread again ¼ of the rice on top and layer with chutney mix.

Again spread ¼ of the rice and spread the vegetable mix

Finally layer the rest of the rice on top and bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius for 15 minutes.

Take it out in a serving dish and garnish with pomegranate and chopped coriander leaves.