Ingredients

• For green rice:
• 1 cup-boiled rice
• 1 bunch- palak
• 1 sprig -coriander leaves
• 2-onions
• 1 tbsp -saunf
• 4 - cloves
• 2-cinnamon sticks
• 1 tbsp -ginger & garlic paste
• 2-green chillies
• oil
• For white rice:
• 1 cup-boiled rice
• 1 tbsp- lime juice
• 2-red chillies
• 1 tsp - mustard
• 1 tbsp -ground nuts or cashew nuts
• 5-garlic pods
• 1 tbsp-gram dhal
• For orange rice:
• 1 cup-boiled rice
• 1/2 kg - grated carrots
• 2-onions
• 2-green chillies
• 1 tbsp -ginger garlic paste
• 1 tbsp -saunf
• 1 tbsp -cardamom
• 1/2 cup- milk or coconut milk
• oil
• salt

How to Make Swadesi Rice

• For green rice: Boil rice and set aside.
• Blanch palak and blend in a mixer along with a little coriander leaves.
• Heat oil in a kadai and splutter the garam masala.
• Fry onions till golden brown.
• Then add ginger garlic paste and green chillies.
• Pour in the palak and cook till raw smell leaves.
• Season with salt.
• Mix in the boiled rice and layer them at the bottom of a serving dish.
• For white rice:
• Heat oil in a kadai.
• Splutter mustard seeds and red chilli flakes.
• Reduce heat, roast the groundnuts or cashewnuts and add the garlic pods too.
• Switch off the heat and add lime juice.
• Sprinkle salt.
• Add oil at comfortable levels since it is the medium to coat rice.
• Mix the boiled rice with the lemon seasoning and form a layer above the green rice.
• For orange rice:
• Cook rice and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a kadai and splutter saunf and cardamom.
• Fry onions till golden brown.
• Add ginger garlic paste and green chillies.
• In a minute, add the grated carrots and fry them for a while.
• Pour a little milk or coconut milk just enough to cook carrots till they become soft and form a gravy.
• Sprinkle salt.
• Mix in the boiled rice.
• Spread the top most layer on your serving dish.
• Fluff up the top most layer a bit and garnish with very well-chopped coriander leaves.