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Kuska recipe with step by step pics - kuska rice is a South Indian style spiced flavorful biryani rice served as an accompaniment with a gravy dish. It is basically an aromatic plain biryani version made without veggies. Kuska rice Or kuska biryani is quite known in south India and served in many hotels there.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have ghee rice/ kuska rice/kuska biriyani using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ghee rice/ kuska rice/kuska biriyani:
- Take 2 cups Basmati rice
- Take 3-4 tsp ghee
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Get 4 green cardamoms
- Take 2 " cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tsp caraway seeds/ sah zeera
- Make ready 5-6 cloves
- Prepare 2 string mice
- Get 1 1/2 cup finely onion sliced
- Take 1 tsp ginger paste
- Take 1 tsp garlic paste
- Prepare 5-6 pudina/ mint leaves paste
- Take 5-6 pudina/ mint leaves crushed
- Prepare 3 slitted green chillies
- Get 2 tsp lemon juice
- Take 4 cups water
- Make ready To taste Salt
This Kuska Recipe is a kind of Biryani, specially made with Jeeraga Samba Rice, without the addition of vegetables and Dum cooked without any layering. It is very famous in Tamilnadu, especially in Muslim homes and the word 'Kuska. A perfect hotel style Kuska Rice recipe! Never soggy, light and fluffy and deliciously flavorful, plus it's super easy to make.
Steps to make Ghee rice/ kuska rice/kuska biriyani:
- Wash rice with water 2 times and exceeding the water..keep aside atleast for 30 mins.
- Take a kadai or utensil for making rice which is good for dum. For cooking with dum technique we need a utensil which bottom is not thin, so sim/ slow cooking with lid do not stick to bottom.
- Put ghee and add bay leaf, caraway seeds, cloves, cinnamon, cardamoms, mice and wait untill spluttering.
- Add onions and cook low flame untill reach golden colour. Then add ginger and garlic paste, and cook untill raw smell of ginger and garlic goes away. Add pudina paste and pudina crushed and stir for 1 min.
- Add 4 cups water. When water starts boiling add rice, salt as per taste(check water for salt taste,if water is not salty then add more salt). Close the lid and seal the lid either with alluminium foil or cloths.
- Keep the flame to a low or sim and dum cook till the rice grains are tender and cooked. It will take about 7 to 8 minutes for the rice to cook. Do use a thick bottomed pan, so that the rice grains do not stick to the bottom of the pan. If you want you can check the rice grains once while cooking. If all the water has been absorbed and the rice grains do not look cooked, then add some hot water in the pan. Cover and continue to cook. Garnished with some mint leaves and served.
Just don't forget to pair with mirchi ka salan or vegetable korma!. You can cook Kuska in Arborio/medium grain rice or basmati/long grain rice for cooking Kuska. If you are using coconut milk then add water accordingly, otherwise, the rice may be sticky and over-cook. To make Kuska Biryani, heat ghee in a pan and when it starts to smoke add cumin seeds in it. This term refers to " Khushk " in Urdu, which means plain or dry.
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