Onion Rice, How to Make Onion Rice Recipe, Simple Onion Rice Recipe

Onion RiceOnion Rice Recipe is one of the simple and easy to prepare the dish. It can be prepared with fresh cooked or even leftover chaaval. This fried rice recipe is not only colorful with beans but also delicious.

Although this is one of the simplest recipes one can do, this tastes good only when eaten fresh, as its main ingredient is onion, we get pungent smell after 4-6 hours of preparation (if left outside). Apart from this issue, we can not only add green beans but also we can add vegetables of your choice and make Simple Onion Rice Recipe.

But then, by adding many vegetables this recipe may turn into vegetable rice, so I didn’t mention many vegetables. You can substitute green peas with channa dal or ground nuts and give it a crunchy flavor.

Onion Rice, How to Make Onion Rice Recipe, Simple Onion Rice Recipe

Onion Rice Recipe is one of the simple and easy to prepare the dish.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Indian
Keyword Onion Rice
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 140 kcal
Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

Ingredients for Onion Rice:

  • Basmati Rice  - 1 cup
  • Green beans - 1/2 cup
  • Onion - 1 medium sized
  • Cumin and mustard seeds - for seasoning
  • Green chilies - 3 no. minced
  • Coriander leaves chopped - 1 tbsp
  • Garlic - little
  • Oil - 1 tbsp.
  • Salt - As per your taste.

Instructions

How to Make Onion Rice Recipe:

  1. Wash and clean basmati rice separately.
  2. Add water and little salt to rice and boil for 10 minutes.
  3. Add 1 tbsp oil to rice so that starch present in rice will not get sticky and cook further for 5 minutes (total 15 minutes)
  4. Cut onions into long and thin slices.
  5. Heat oil in a saucepan and fry cumin and mustard seeds for seasoning, keep aside.
  6. In the same pan add onions and green chilies and fry until you get the golden color.

Tip: we need to take care while frying onions, we should make sure that they merely turn the golden color. In order to get such output, one can add little sugar over onions and cover with a lid for a minute or two. By adding sugar onions tend to change its color faster and we can obtain golden color faster without burning.

  1. Now add green peas and a little water and boil until everything is dried.
  2. Once it is dried, add cooked rice and coriander leaves.
  3. Cook for about 1 minute stirring constantly until everything is mixed well.
  4. Onion Rice Recipe is ready to serve, serve hot.

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