Rice is one of the staples in India. Make delicious aromatic rice recipes for lunch and dinner easily. Here is a list of my favorite and most popular Indian rice recipes. Must-try these easy rice recipes.
Indian Rice Recipes
Get here the most popular veg Indian rice recipes on the blog in one place. Click on the photo or link to read a detailed recipe post.
Rice is a staple food in many parts of our country, especially in the southern and eastern parts. Rice can be prepared in many ways. You just need to play around with the ingredients.
We use different varieties of equipment for different rice (as per the cooking method). Many times we use a pressure cooker (instant rice biryani, Pulao, tehri, etc.), an instant pot (an electronic pressure cooker), Rice Cookers, Biryani Cooking Pots, sometimes on an open pan or pot, and sometimes on tawa or flat pan (tawa pulao).
What to serve with rice?
When rice is cooked with aromatic spices, it is a complete dish. You just need some tangy raita or salan kind of dish to accompany rice.
Read here some side dishes that will go best with any of our rice recipes:
Veg Raita: a combination of curd, cucumber, tomato, onion, chilies, and coriander leaves.
Boondi Raita: a mixture of curd and boondi, added herbs and spices.
Bagara Baingan: tangy, spicy eggplant curry cooked in authentic Hyderabadi style
Bhindi ka salan: This is also a tangy okra recipe in Hyderabadi style
Dahi Baingan: Eggplants are cooked in curd-based gravy. I have a collection of 3 types of dahi baingan on my blog. Try them.
Here is a collection of simple Indian rice recipes for our everyday food, and you may love to make them on special occasions.
Collection of Best Indian Rice Recipes (Vegetarian & Vegan)
Instant Vegetable Biryani
Instant veg biryani is a mixed vegetable biryani recipe cooked in a pressure cooker or rice cooker. This vegetable-loaded rice recipe is easy to make and a quick biryani recipe. Aromatic whole spices of biryani masala make this rice flavorful.
Mixed Vegetable Fried Rice (Indian)
Mixed veg fried rice is stir-fried with lots of veggies and mild spices. This is cooked in an Indian fried rice style. However, this is a quick recipe and one of the best twists to your leftover rice. Mix veg fried rice has all the goodness of vegetables. Add vegetables and paneer to your fried rice. Serve with raita.
Methi Matar Pulao
Methi matar pulao is a delightful aromatic rice pulao cooked with fenugreek leaves and green peas. This is a winter special rice recipe as you will get fresh methi or fenugreek leaves and peas. However, you can also use frozen ones. This is also a quick tiffin box recipe.
Narali Bhat / Coconut Rice
Narali Bhat, or coconut rice, is a sweet rice recipe that is a delicacy of Maharashtra. This is made on the Shravan Poornima occasion. You can make it any other day also. I have used jaggery or jaggery powder or sugar to sweeten the rice. Peanuts and shredded coconut are important, along with some aromatic whole spices. This is a must-try recipe.
Beetroot Fried Rice
Another fragrant and flavorful rice recipe that I have adapted from my mom. This rice has so many nostalgic memories linked to my golden childhood days. This is loaded with lots of healthy vegetables, nuts, and raisins. I have made this using a pressure cooker. Rice cookers and instant pots are other quick ways to make this.
Dal Khichdi
Dal khichdi is a comfort food that is quick and a lifesaver for lazy days when you don't feel like spending some hours in the kitchen. This is a one-pot recipe, one of the healthiest dishes on earth.
Dahi Rice/ Curd Rice
Dahi rice, or curd rice, originally belonged to South India. But it's one of my favorites. This is a kid-friendly dish. Even my kid is very fond of this rice. This is one of the simplest rice, yet it's flavourful because of curry leaves and mustard seeds.
Mushroom Matar Pulao
Another delicious rice with a heavenly combination of mushrooms and green peas. It is effortless and one of the best filling tiffin box recipes.
Vegetable Tehri/ Rice Pilaf
Vegetable tehri is a North Indian name for veg pulao. This is an aromatic rice pilaf cooked in a pressure cooker with many vegetables.
Cauliflower Schezwan Fried Rice
I loved this cauliflower schezwan fried rice. This is a perfect blend of schezwan sauce and cauliflower balls or sticks. Perfect for lazy days when you want to rely on your comfort food collection.
Nutty Lemon Rice
Nutty Lemon Rice is tangy, flavorful, crunchy rice because of the fried peanuts. Lemon juice adds that extra punch of tanginess, along with lots of curry leaves. Again, this is a kid's friendly rice and another quick tiffin box recipe.
Baby Potato Dum Biryani
Baby potato dum biryani is a delicious and flavor-loaded potato dum biryani. The aromatic spices add so much flavor to the rice that you would love to make this again and again. I have used the dum cooking method to prepare this biryani.
Instant Soya Biryani
This soybean biryani is a one-pot dish similar to veg biryani. I have replaced vegetables with healthy and protein-rich soya chunks. More than that, this is a quick biryani, as you don't need to do any chopping and preparation for this. It takes 2 minutes to soften the soya chunks before adding to our biryani. Hence, it is one of my blog's best kids' tiffin box recipes.
Mumbai Street Side Tawa Pulao
Tawa pulao is one famous Mumbai street-side food. This spicy, tangy rice is available in almost all pav bhaji stalls. The reason is that this is quite similar to our Mumbai special pav bhaji. We use almost the same vegetables, seasonings, and spices to make this rice. This is best when made with leftover rice.
Sama Chawal Khichdi
Sama chawal or samvat is a popular millet in India. Normally, we make this rice during our fasting days when we refrain from eating regular grains like rice or wheat. So, this is a quick and filling fasting recipe. You can add potatoes, bottled gourd, and tomatoes that you can eat on such days. Use rock salt in place of regular iodine salt.
Masale Bhat
This is a one-pot Indian rice recipe spiced up with aromatic spices. Masale bhat is an Authentic Maharashtrian rice recipe made with Goda Masala.
Appetizers:
Veg Arancini From Dal Khichdi
Crispy, Crunchy outside, and cheesy inside. Arancini is an Italian dish that is a cheesy rice ball. This is a perfect snack for my kid. I have made this from leftover dal khichdi. But you can make this from fresh ones also. Take only cooked rice or mix some cooked lentils to give this a protein-packed twist.
Desserts:
Rice Pudding
An easy dessert of rice and milk. It's one of the quickest desserts on earth you can make. It hardly takes 10 - 15 minutes to make this rice kheer—an extremely delicious and creamy dessert. Here, you can use sama rice to make your kheer for fasting days.
Kheer Puda
Kheer puda is a Punjabi dessert. This normally combines two sweet dishes like kheer (rice pudding) and puda (malpua). Both are heavenly combinations indeed. The puda I have made is whole wheat malpua, which is better than refined flour. Nuts and raisins give this kheer puda a crunchy bite and add to the flavor.
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