Ajika South Indian Ponni Rice

Less starch and more protein

Rice is the perfect foundation for today's healthier eating and vegan, vegetarian and gluten free lifestyles.

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This is a long and thin white rice. Its has more of fiber contents and less starch. It is easily digestible. Excellent for South Indian cooking.

- Cook Indian, Arabic, Turkish or Zereshk Persian rice dishes, including pilafs, Polows, Pilavs, Biryani (an elaborate oven-cooked dish that combines rice with vegetables, meat or seafood) with our Basmati Rice. Its dry texture is ideal for absorbing flavors.

- Our Sushi Rice has an appetizing aroma, sweet flavor and sticky texture. Sushi rice is chewy, springy to make into shapes. It is also glossy and contrasts well with nori, veggies and herbs, fish and meats. Also excellent in silky rice puddings, rice salads, teriyaki, rice bowls and other Asian recipes.

- Thai Jasmine rice is snowy white, soft, tender grains that are a wonderful all around dish that absorbs flavors but also is wonderful by itself. Serve with curries and as a side. Add coconut and make an elegant flavored rich rice. Our store provides rice and rice dishes from around the world. Cook Indian, Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Arabic, and Persian Rice with rice from our store.

• Long-grain rice produces light, fluffy rice and is many times more aromatic. Examples include basmati rice, jasmine rice.
• Short-grain rice, typically found in East Asian cooking, results in rice that is sticky.
• Medium-grain rice is shorter than long-grain and less sticky than short-grain. This is usually used for making paella, Egyptian rice.
• Black & Red rice is used for desserts and is perfect with coconut and sweet fruits like banana and pineapple.
Perfectly Cooked Rice
Use a 2-to-1 water-to-rice ratio, although brown rice tends to require a little bit more water than white. Also, using less water and a dollop of ghee or butter will produce rice that's more firm and less sticky.

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This rice too is a good all around rice. It is especially good for tamarind rice, lemon rice, coconut rice, sweet pongal, yogurt rice

Lemon Rice
Ingredients
1 cup Ponni Rice cooked in 2 cups of water and set aside to cool
1/4 cup raw peanuts or shelled groundnuts
1 onion diced
1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
1 tsp. fenugreek seeds
1 tsp. mustard seeds
3 tsp. channa dal
1 tsp. Black gram dal
10 curry leaves
1 to 3 green chilies minced
2 small whole red chilies
4 tsp. sesame seeds
2 Lemons juiced and set aside
4 tbsp. ghee or oil
Salt to taste

Method:
1. Add salt, Lemon Juice and turmeric powder. Gently mix them thoroughly and set aside.
2. Add oil/ghee to a pot and fry peanuts on low till they are brown in color. Then add sesame seeds and fry till it changes color. Set aside.
3. Add the mustard seeds and red chilies to the oil and let the mustard seeds pop. Then add the 2 lentils and fry for about three to four seconds till the lentils are brown . Add fenugreek and cook another few seconds. Then add diced Onions and curry leaves and fry till onions become translucent. Add the rice and stir fry the rice in the seasonings and mix thoroughly.
4. Before serving fold in the crisp peanuts and sesame seeds.