[adapted from recipe by my sister Jola]
This is very easy way of turning plain rice into fancy side dish, great for grilled meats and fish.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups easy cook basmati rice or other easy cook rice of your choice
- 4 cups of water
- 4 tbs coconut milk powder or grated coconut – optional
- about 8 green cardamom pods (peeled and crushed)
- sea salt to taste
- 8 tbs almond flakes or chopped pistachios
EQUIPMENT
- mortar and pestle to crush cardamoms
METHOD
- Place rice, water, salt, crushed cardamoms and coconut milk powder in a pot and cook covered until all water is dissolved and rice is soft.
- Season to taste with salt.
- If you are using almond flakes toast them on frying pan until golden brown.
- Share the rice, sprinkle with almonds or pistachios.
Makes 4 servings.
NOTES
Cardamom rice taste also good served with ready smoked mackerel.
Sounds very interesting Margot like you said it would be lovely with fish – yum!
sorry I haven’t been around for a week or so due to illness :sad: But lovely to catch up on all you creations :grin:
Rosie x
I love cardamom! This looks great – like a wonderful side dish that carries just a hint of the exotic.
woowww…spices in the air. I always love cardamom, Margot.
Must try this sometime.
How much cardamom would you use if you were using cardamom seed/ground cardamom?
Than you for all the comments.
Desiree – After crushing 8 cardamoms in mortar I had about 1 tsp. I suspect that ground cardamom from the shop is much finer, so I guess about half a teaspoon would be good.