Recipe: Nasi Dhal by Marina Mustafa

I am sharing these recipe which i found during my blogwalking. It's nasi Dhal recipe by Marina Mustafa. I will definately try this out very soon as i'm planning to finish all my dhal stock before i go for a long holiday during Christmas-New Year 2013.

*Photo: Credit to Marina Mustafa

Ingredients:~

• 3 cups Basmathi rice
• 3 ½ cups water
• 1 cup of water blended with 2 inches of ginger
• 1 ½ tsp salt
• ½ cup dhal beans, soaked for an hour
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• 2 pieces screwpine leaves, tied into a knot
• 5 cloves
• 5 cardamoms
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 star anise
• ½ onion, sliced finely
• 5 garlic, sliced
• ½ cup evaporated milk, mixed with 1 tbsp lime juice

~Method~

1. Wash the rice and drain. Put it in the rice cooker with the dhal, water, ginger juice and salt.
2. In a small pan, heat the oil and ghee. Fry the screwpine leaves, then the spices. Put the onions and garlic in the oil and sautee.
3. When the onion softens, pour the oil mixture onto the rice in the rice cooker. Stir briefly to mix the flavors in.
4. Start the rice cooker.
5. When the rice cooks, pour the milk evenly on top of the rice.
6. Let it rest a while. Eat after it rests for 10 minutes.

*Note: Entire recipe was copied & pasted from Marina Mustafa's blog.

Incase any of you guys interested to cook Nasi Dhal, you may go to Marina Mustafa's blog to find out the recipe..and..you can have a look at a lot more fantastic recipes there.

Thank you Marina Mustafa!