Bagara rice is a flavourful and delicious recipe from the Telangana cuisine. That goes perfect with any veg/non-veg gravy. You can make this simple and delicious recipe within 30 minutes.
This is a one-pot meal which is prepared by sautéing onion, green chillies with ginger garlic paste and then combining with rice and cooked on low flame for 10-15 minutes. Even you can make this bagara rice in a pressure cooker too.
Shhh Cooking Secretly Challenge
By now my regular readers would have understood that I came again with another regional recipe for the Facebook group Shhh Cooking Secretly Challenge. My partner for this month for Telangana cuisine Challenge is Priya Mahesh who blogs at at200deg.com. Do check her beautiful blog for delicious and mouthwatering recipes. She gave Ghee and cloves as my secret ingredients and I gave her coriander seeds and garlic as her secret ingredients.
Step by step pictures of making Bagara Rice Recipe
Ingredients:
Basmati rice - 1 cup
Chopped onions -2
Green chillies -4
Cinnamon stick – ½ inch
Ginger garlic paste-1tsp
Shah jeera -1tsp
Cashew nuts -4tbsp (optional)
Bay leaves-2
Cloves-4
Coriander leaves a hand full
Mint leaves a hand full
Ghee-4tbsp
Salt to taste
Hot water-11/2 cup
Preparation:
1.wash and soak the rice in water for at least 15 minutes. Here I soaked the rice for 30 minutes.
2. Heat a deep pan with ghee. Then add all spices and fry for a minute.
3. Next, add the chopped onions along with slit green chillies and sauté them till onion changes its colour.
4. After that add ginger garlic paste and fry a minute or until raw smell goes out.
5. Then add cashew nuts along with mint and coriander leaves and sauté them for a minute.
6. Drain the water from rice and slowly add the pan and mix gently, so that you don’t break the grains.
7. Add 11/2 cup of water and season it with required salt and mix well.
8. Close the lid and cook on low flame for 15-20 minutes or until rice is cooked.
9.Once it is cooked leave it aside for 10-15 minutes without opening the lid. Then gently puff the rice with a spoon or fork.
10. Transfer the flavoured Bagara rice into a serving plate and enjoy with favourite curry.
11. Here my family and I enjoyed this delicious and flavourful rice with chicken curry and egg fry.
Note:
You can use oil instead of ghee or both oil and ghee together also.
Adjust the green chillies according to your taste.
Few more rice recipes for you:
Bagara Rice Recipe | How to make Bagara Rice
Equipment
- Saucepan
- Spatula
Ingredients
- Basmati rice - 1 cup
- Chopped onions -2
- Green chillies -4
- Cinnamon stick – ½ inch
- Cardamom pods -2
- Ginger garlic paste-1tsp
- Shah jeera -1tsp
- Cashew nuts -4tbsp optional
- Bay leaves-2
- Cloves-4
- Coriander leaves a hand full
- Mint leaves a hand full
- Ghee-4tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Hot water-11/2 cup
Instructions
- wash and soak the rice in water for at least 15 minutes. Here I soaked the rice for 30 minutes.
- Heat a deep pan with ghee. Then add all spices and fry for a minute.
- Next, add the chopped onions along with slit green chillies and sauté them till onion changes its colour.
- After that add ginger garlic paste and fry a minute or until raw smell goes out.
- Then add cashew nuts along with mint and coriander leaves and sauté them for a minute.
- Drain the water from rice and slowly add the pan and mix gently, so that you don’t break the grains.
- Add 11/2 cup of water and season it with required salt and mix well.
- Close the lid and cook on low flame for 15-20 minutes or until rice is cooked.
- Once it is cooked leave it aside for 10-15 minutes without opening the lid. Then gently puff the rice with a spoon or fork.
- Transfer the flavoured bagara rice into a serving plate and enjoy with favourite curry.
- Here my family and I enjoyed this delicious and flavourful rice with chicken curry and egg fry.
Notes
Adjust the green chillies according to your taste.
This simple rice dish looks so tempting and love your clicks.All the spices and mint must have added so much flavor to Bagara Rice.
Thank you Mayuri Patel.
Yum! Such a simple recipe, but I'm sure this tasted super flavourful and lovely. 🙂 I would love to try this out some time.
Is it similar to ghee rice that we get in South Indian restaurants?
Loved this easy simple and delicious rice recipe. Mint leaves
coriander leaves and whole spices definitely made it aromatic. Superb share.
Thank you
The rice is cooked so perfectly. Each and every grain is shining bright. A delicious and easy recipe for parties
Thank you Renu.
So very flavorful with the right amount of spices . Rice looks nice and fluffy !!
I loved the simplicity of this byagara rice. So simple yet full of flavors ! You have cooked it so well.
Thank you Poonam.
Love this super delicious bagara rice, it's of my fav one pot rice item which I never no this. Your's presentation is very inviting 👌.
Thank you dear.
Rice is so perfectly cooked and it must be so flavourful with all the added spices.. perfect to pair up with curries and dals.
Thank you Swati.
Such a simple and flavoursome recipe
So flavorful and aromatic rice. Looks quite similar to ghee rice and would love to eat with any curry.
easy recipe.
thanks for sharing.
I pinned it thank you for sharing this recipe!