Sweet Corn Rice Recipe

Here I am giving you a Sweet Corn Rice recipe with a twist of masala with step by step procedure along with pictures. I served this with Peas Masala gravy. It turned out to be a hit amongst the family.


Here in this recipe I used frozen sweet corn kernels and capsicum. You can also add vegetables of your choice like carrot, beans, potato etc. But I prefer to use only corn and capsicum as I feel like adding vegetables will make this recipe a vegetable rice and in that real corn taste will get lost. So I will leave it to your preference for the vegetable options.

To add more color to this recipe, try using green/red capsicum. Always keep capsicum quantity less than sweet corn kernels for this recipe.

Ingredients for Corn Rice: Sweet corn kernels – 1 cup Basmati Rice  - 1 cup Onions – 1 sliced lengthwise Capsicum – half sliced lengthwise Oil - 2 tbsp Cinnamon - 1/2 inch Cloves - 2 nos Cardamon - 2 nos Bay leaves  - 1 Green chilli – 2 Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp Garam masala – 1 tsp Coriander powder – 1 tsp Salt to taste

Method:

• Soak the rice for 5 minutes then add two cups of water and cook for one whistle or until soft. Cooking rice method differs according to the rice preference. So I will leave it to your option.
• After whistle settled allow the rice to cool by sprinkling some oil in a plate.
• Add  2 tbsp of oil in a kadai and add bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, cardamon, green chilli.
• Add onions and fry till raw smell goes.
  
• Add ginger garlic paste and fry till raw smell goes.
• Add sweet corn kernels and mix well.
• Add garam masala powder and mix well.
  
• Add coriander powder, red chilli powder(optional), capsicum, salt and mix well.
• Allow to cook until kernels and capsicum are soft by adding little water (don't allow to capsicum to cook till very soft).
• Add it to the cooled rice and mix well. Adjust salt.
  

Serve with gravy of your choice.

Note:

• While you adding water to cook kernels and capsicum add little water if not sufficient add little by little quantity. Avoid adding large amounts of water at once.