Garlic Rice is a spicy, flavorful rice made by grinding roasted garlic into a coarse powder & blending it with cooked rice and tempered spices. Garlic Rice is a treat for spice and garlic lovers. Learn to make Garlic Rice with step by step pictures.
Few weeks back, I was badly craving for some spicy variety rice and this garlic rice was apt for my craving. It is super spicy with the flavor of chilli and garlic, along with the crunch in the fried garlic pieces is the highlight of this recipe.
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About Garlic Rice
Garlic Rice is quick and easy to make for lunch or even for packing lunchboxes, this is a must try for all garlic lovers. Garlic Rice is made by roasting and grinding garlic along with spices, herbs and lentils.
I had another recipe of garlic rice with mor milagai , but when I saw this I was way too tempted to make it so here goes recipe without any further delay. This is one of my favorite variety rice that I often crave for.
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Garlic Rice Ingredients
- Cooked rice – You can use leftover rice too. I have used regular rice you can use basmati rice too.
- Masala powder – A masala spice blend is made using garlic, red chili, coriander seeds, chana dal and urad dal.
- Tempering – A basic tempering is made using mustard seeds, curry leaves and garlic.
How to make Garlic Rice Step by Step
1.Heat oil, add chopped garlic fry till golden. Then add urad dal, chana dal and coriander seeds.
2.Roast till it turns golden brown. Cool down and grind it to a coarse mixture. Set aside. Add required salt with cooked rice and spread it to make it fluffy and separate.
3.Heat oil and add the ingredients listed under ‘to temper’ and fry till garlic turns golden brown. Add the garlic mixture and the tempered items to the rice and mix well until it is coated evenly.
Serve hot / warm with vadam or any curry of your choice.
Expert Tips
- I used kashmiri red chilies so used 4 and it was not that spicy. If you are using regular ones use 3 chilies.
- Roasting garlic till golden brown is a must else you will get raw garlic smell.
- This rice is little on the spicy side so if you wish you can reduce chilies to 3. You can adjust salt so that the spice level is adjusted.
- Even though garlic is roasted you will feel the raw garlic flavor after eating for sure so get ready with your mouth freshener.
- As there is no coconut, you can make this powder in prior and store it for 2-3 days and use it whenever you want to make this rice.
- You can make this with leftover rice which will be perfect.
Serving and Storage
Garlic Rice tastes best when served with papad or fryums. This keeps well in room temperature for 7 hours and in fridge for 2 days.
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Garlic Rice Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked rice
- salt to taste
To temper:
- 2 teaspoon oil
- 1/4 teaspoon mustard seeds
- few curry leaves
- 3 garlic finely chopped
To roast and grind
- 10 garlic
- 4 red chilies
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds
- 2 teaspoon chana dal
- 1 teaspoon urad dal
Instructions
- Heat oil, add chopped garlic fry till golden. Then add urad dal, chana dal and coriander seeds.
- Roast till it turns golden brown. Cool down and grind it to a coarse mixture. Set aside. Add required salt with cooked rice and spread it to make it fluffy and separate.
- Heat oil and add the ingredients listed under ‘to temper’ and fry till garlic turns golden brown. Add the garlic mixture and the tempered items to the rice and mix well until it is coated evenly.
- Serve hot / warm with vadam or any curry of your choice.
Notes
- I used kashmiri red chilies so used 4 and it was not that spicy. If you are using regular ones use 3 chilies.
- Roasting garlic till golden brown is a must else you will get raw garlic smell.
- This rice is little on the spicy side so if you wish you can reduce chilies to 3. You can adjust salt so that the spice level is adjusted.
- Even though garlic is roasted you will feel the raw garlic flavor after eating for sure so get ready with your mouth freshener.
- As there is no coconut, you can make this powder in prior and store it for 2-3 days and use it whenever you want to make this rice.
- You can make this with leftover rice which will be perfect.
Vidya Mohan
looks yummm and its south indian style i was expecting chinese style Garlic rice post available in restaurant :-)please post chinese style too sometimes
RENU
tasty rice
Jeyashrisuresh
Perfect and flavorful rice. Love the color vadams , miss that one
sowmya(creative saga)
Good one with leftover..love the recipe..
Hamaree Rasoi
Delicious and colorful rice. Excellent preparation.
Deepa
Divya Shivaraman
one best idea for leftover rice.
Prathima Rao
Nice & spicy & flavorful…Ideal way to finish off leftover rice!!
Prathima Rao
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Hari Chandana P
Lovely and aromatic rice.. wonderful shots 🙂
Veena Theagarajan
love the color of it.. perfect rice
Priya
Super flavourful rice, lovely way to finish the leftover rice.
Krithi Karthi
THAT is an awesome recipe Sharmi! Always all of your recipes come in handy when I am thinking what to fix for lunch!! You are doing a great job!
Nalini's Kitchen
Delicious and easy to make flavorful rice,nice idea to use the leftover rice….
Sangeetha
super quick & flavorful rice…liked all your clicks, great!
Savitha Ganesan
Love the flaovour of garlic always.Sure its a tongue twister.
Sandhiya
Totally new recipe to me..bookmarked it..Like the clicks..
sandy
Tried this rice today. .tasted awesome:))) thank you:)
sandy
Tried this today.. tasted awesome.. thank you :)))(
Vaishnavi
Tried this today and came out well. Thanks for the recipe. Do keep these coming
Isabella Rani
simple and nice tasty recipe for leftover rice .