Sunday, June 29, 2014

Screwpine Rice









My mom's garden used to be a heaven for screwpine leaves. Vibrant green bushes of screwpines occupied most of her garden landscape. Too bad all the beautiful bushes were gone while i'm typing my blog now. Too many intruder and trespassers has their share during their morning walk to make it gone.

Thank God i got a chance to have made this rice dish before its gone forever. Beautiful green and the fragrant of screwpine leaves is refreshing rice dish to serve during sunday lunch.



Ingredients

3 cups rice, wash and drained
4 1/e during 2 cups water
1/4 cup coconut milk
3 screwpine/pandan leaves (blend with little water to extract juice)
5 screwpine/pandan leaves, knotted
1 red chilly, slitted
2 cloves
2 cardamoms
1/2 tsp black peppercorns
Salt to taste
1 tbsp oil



Methods

Heat oil in a pan and add in cloves,cardamoms,peppercorns and red chilly

In a rice cooker add in the rice,water,coconut milk,salt,screwpine juice,screwpine leaves and fried spice mixture

Switch on rice cooker and let it cook till done




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