Tadka Rice recipe is nothing but tempered rice with spices, seasoning and some veggies. In India similarly phodniche bhaat is made in Maharashtrian style which is quite a popular dish. This is my own version of recipe and its relished and devored 🙂 in our house.
If you have have lots of cooked rice of previous day and don’t want to waste. Then do try this recipe its flavorful, healthy and easy to make. I have used veggies like potatoes, tomatoes, onion and ginger with herbs. Spices like cumin, whole garam masala and garam masala powder. Further to lift the taste also added some pav bhaji masala to the rice.
Club this tadka rice with papad, pickle and some salad. We had ours with french fries and salad. You could use any kind of cooked rice like short grained / long grained. Since I had to click pics have used basmati rice. Otherwise even with plain rice it tastes great. Mostly I use organic hand pounded rice or basmati from Dorabjees.
We love medium spicy food at our place so make them accordingly. Both of us cannot eat very spicy food so simple we don’t cook spicy food. But in case your food does becomes spicy then squeeze some lime juice which would reduce the heat from the spice 😉
This dish is great to make as quick lunch, tiffin boxes or whenever you have hungry pangs. Go ahead try and make your own version of tadka rice.
Let’s make Tadka Rice stepwise:
1. You could use leftover rice or boil rice and keep ready.
2. Firstly chop potatoes and other veggies. Keep them handy.
3. Also keep the spices and powder ready.
4. Heat oil in a vessel and shallow fry the potatoes until golden brown in color.
5. Place them on absorbent napkins.
6. In the same oil add cashwenuts.
7. Shallow fry for 1 minute and place cashews on an absorbent napkin.
8. Add caraway seed and all the whole garam masala to the oil.
9. Now add onion julienne and ginger julienne.
10. Saute until the onion becomes colorless or pink. Add the green chilies and butter.
11. Fry for a minute more then add tomatoes.
12. Add in all the spice powder mentioned in the ingredients.
13. Stir nicely and fry for a minute more.
14. Also add sugar, salt, coriander leaves and garam masala powder.
15. Also add fried cashew’s and potatoes.
16. Lastly add the boiled rice and stir gently else they might break.
17. Once everything is mixed just cover the rice with a lid and cook for a minute.
18. Switch off the gas and serve tadka rice hot with lime wedges, salad or papad.
Tadka Rice recipe and printable version below:
- 1.5 tbsp oil + 1 tbsp butter or ghee
- 2 cups boiled rice or leftover rice of any kind like kolam/ basmati etc
- 1 cup / 8 oz potatoes chopped into cubes (aloo)
- 1 cup / 8 oz of tomatoes chopped lengthwise (tamatar)
- 2-3 onion or 1.5 cup / 14 oz of onion julienne (pyaz)
- 1 tbsp ginger julienne (adrak)
- 4-5 green chilies slit from center (hari mirch)
- 1 tsp caraway seed (shahi jeera)
- 1 bayleaf (tejpata)
- 1 black cardamom (badi elaichi)
- 3-4 green cardamom (choti elaichi)
- 2 stoneflower (dagadphool)
- 4-5 cloves (lavang)
- 10-12 peppercorn (kalimirch)
- 1 cinnamon stick (dalchini)
- 2 mace blades (javitri)
- 3-4 saffron cobra (nagkesar)
- 12- 14 cashewnuts (kaju)
- 1 tsp pavbhaji masala[b] (optional)[/b]
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
- 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves (kothmir)
- 1 tsp sugar (optional)
- salt as required
- [b]Additional Ingredients:[/b]
- 1 cup onion julienne (fried until golden brown)
- 2-3 lime wedges for garnish
- You could use leftover rice or boil rice and keep ready.
- Firstly chop potatoes and other veggies. Keep them handy.
- Also keep the spices and powder ready.
- Heat oil in a vessel and shallow fry the potatoes until golden brown in color.
- Place them on absorbent napkins.
- In the same oil add cashwenuts.
- Shallow fry for 1 minute and place cashews on an absorbent napkin.
- Add caraway seed and all the whole garam masala to the oil.
- Now add onion julienne and ginger julienne.
- Saute until the onion becomes colorless or pink. Add the green chilies and butter.
- Fry for a minute more then add tomatoes.
- Add in all the spice powder mentioned in the ingredients.
- Stir nicely and fry for a minute more.
- Also add sugar, salt, coriander leaves and garam masala powder.
- Also add fried cashew’s and potatoes.
- Lastly add the boiled rice and stir gently else they might break.
- Once everything is mixed just cover the rice with a lid and cook for a minute.
- Switch off the gas and serve tadka rice hot with lime wedges, salad or papad.
valisa says
Sorry for late reply maria, i made this rice last month & it was jus yyymmm.. today again i made for dinner. Thanx a lot dear
maria says
pleased to know this valisa thankyou so much 🙂
shaheen kazi says
Hi,
UR all recipes are wonderful keep writing and thank a ton for sharing ?
maria says
welcome always shaheen 🙂 and thankyou for your positive words.
Samvit kher says
Very helpful article. Keep writing!
maria says
Thankyou Samvit 🙂
Sandhya Hariharan says
This sounds soo much yumm n flavoursome . A great twist to humble pulav. Isn’t this similar to tava pulav ?
maria says
Thankyou Sandhya 🙂 only pavbhaji masala is same rest it’s quite different then tawa pulao as no whole spices are used. Also in tawa pulao boiled veggies goes in making but thankyou for your positive and kind words 🙂