Beet/Beetroot – you got to love this root vegetable. Beets are high in dietary fiber, folate, potassium, manganese, vitamin C, iron and magnesium.
The nutritional value and health benefits of beet makes it ideal for:
Maintaining optimum health
Weight loss
Here is the recipe for Beet Rice – this rice has a mild sweet taste of beets and a hint of spiciness with chillies.
Ingredients:
2 Beets – shredded
1/2 tsp fennel seeds
4 garlic cloves
ginger to taste
green chillies per taste
mint 2 sprigs
cilantro handful
1 diced tomato
1/2 onion cut into wedges
1/2 cup of coconut milk
cardamom/cinnamon/bay leaf/star anise – per taste
few cashews
1 cup basmati rice -soaked 1/2 hr, completed drained, and fried in 1/2 tsp ghee/butter
2 tablespoon ghee/oil
For masala – grind 1/2 tsp fennel seeds, 4 garlic cloves, ginger, green chillies, mint sprigs, and cilantro.
Directions:
- In a pressure cooker add 2 tbsp ghee/oil, fry cashews and other spices
- Add onion wedges followed by ground masala and fry then until raw smell is gone.
- Then add tomatoes, followed by shredded beets and continue frying
- Now add rice and fry this for 2 min
- Add coconut milk followed by 1 and 3/4 cup water
- Add salt per taste and cook until the pressure cooker gives you 3 whistles
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