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How To Cook Red Rice , Red Rice with Garlic

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red rice recipe | how to cook red rice | simple red rice with garlic | red rice benefits is a flavourful Oriental style fare. Learn how to cook red rice.

To make red rice, clean and wash the red rice with water. Drain well. Combine the rice with 1½ cups of water in a pressure cooker and pressure cook for 6 whistles and then cook on a slow flame cook for 5 minutes. Allow the steam to escape before opening the lid. To make red rice with garlic, heat the olive oil in a broad non stick pan. Add the garlic and sauté on a slow flame for 30 seconds. Add the cooked red rice, soy sauce and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute. Serve the red rice hot.

You can easily make your rice healthier and satiating by replacing it with other cereals like bulgur wheat, bajra, jowar and even red rice. Adding these ingredients to make simple red rice with garlic will add a little more fibre to your meal than white polished rice. The reason is the presence of the bran which remains intact in it, which otherwise is removed while making white rice.

While the red rice does have almost equal amounts of carbs as white rice, red rice benefits are more. It has antioxidants anthocyanin and quercetin which helps to fight inflammation and free radicals in the body. This in turn helps to maintain the health of alloragns of the body. Thus the presence of fibre and antioxidants makes red rice a better choice for weight-watchers and heart patients.

The use of olive oil in red rice further makes it more heart friendly. It is rich in MUFA (monounsaturated fatty acids) and thus a healthier choice.

For diabetics, we would yet recommend to consider having this cooked red rice if the carbs in it have been considered as a part of your daily meal and well balanced with other fibre rich ingredients by your dietitian.

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Preparation Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 20 mins Total Time: 30 mins 2Makes 1.50 cups (2 servings )
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Ingredients

For The Red Rice
1/2 cup red rice
1 tsp olive oil
1 tbsp finely chopped garlic (lehsun)
1 tsp soy sauce
salt to taste

Method

For the red rice

To make red rice, clean and wash the red rice with water. Drain well.
Combine the rice with 1½ cups of water in a pressure cooker and pressure cook for 6 whistles and then cook on a slow flame cook for 5 minutes. Allow the steam to escape before opening the lid.
To make red rice with garlic, heat the olive oil in a broad non stick pan.
Add the garlic and sauté on a slow flame for 30 seconds.
Add the cooked red rice, soy sauce and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute.
Serve the red rice hot.

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How to cook the red rice

To make red rice recipe | how to cook red rice | simple red rice with garlic | red rice benefits, take 1/2 cup red rice in a bowl.
Clean and wash red rice with water. Drain the water using a sieve.
Add the washed red rice in a pressure cooker.
Add 1 1/2 cups water to it. If you want to have plain red rice, add salt also at this stage before cooking.

Pressure cook for 6 whistles and then cook on a slow flame cook for 5 minutes. Allow the steam to escape before opening the lid.
Open the lid. This is how the cooked red rice looks.

For the red rice with garlic

To make red rice recipe | how to cook red rice | simple red rice with garlic | red rice benefits, heat one tsp of olive oil in a non stick pan. Olive oil is rich in MUFA (mono unsaturated fatty acids and hence we recommend using it.
Add the 1 tbsp finely chopped garlic .
Sauté the garlic for 30 seconds on a slow flame.

Add the cooked red rice.
Add 1 tsp of soy sauce
Add salt as per taste.
Mix the simple red rice with garlic well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute.
Serve red rice | how to cook red rice | simple red rice with garlic | hot.