Basmati Rice, Pilaf-Style

Name: Basmati Rice, Pilaf-Style
Yield: Serves 4 as a side dish
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon, canola oil, vegetable oil, or corn oil; 3 inch piece, cinnamon stick, halved; 2 , green cardamom pods; 1/4 cup, thinly sliced onion; 2 , whole cloves; 1 cup, basmati rice; 1 teaspoon, table salt; 1 1/2 cups, water

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 1997, America's Test Kitchen TV

SERVES4 as a side dish

TIME50 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a basmati rice pilaf recipe that produced light, fluffy, aromatic rice, we first rinsed the rice to remove excess starch. Then we toasted whole spices in some oil before toasting the rice itself. Adding water and then cooking the rice o...

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