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Onion Rice, How to Make Onion Rice Recipe, Simple Onion Rice Recipe
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 
Onion Rice Recipe is one of the simple and easy to prepare the dish.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Onion Rice
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.