Name: Spice rice
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 1 onion, finely chopped; 1 tablespoon coconut oil; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 4 cardamom, lightly cracked; ½ teaspoon ground turmeric; 400 g (2 cups) jasmine rice; 2 cm (¾ inch) ginger, peeled and grated; 2 cloves

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fire Islands

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2019

About

This rice is pale gold and very scented. Rice is more typically eaten plain, but in parts of Indonesia there are dishes resembling the pilafs and biryanis of the Middle East and South Asia. The spices - cloves, cardamom, cinnamon - of the old spice trading routes suffuse it with flavour.

Ingredients

400 g (2 cups) jasmine rice
1 tablespoon coconut oil<

Method

Wash the rice thoroughly, swirling the grains in four changes of cold water until most of the cloudiness has gone.

Heat the coconut oil in a saucepan and fry the onion until softened. Add the garlic, ginger and spices and cook for a minute longer. Stir through the rice so it is lightly coated and glistening.

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