Kaliyaa Birinjee

== Ingredients ==
* 450 g patna rice (excess starch washed off)
* 4 onions (large, sliced thinly)
* 3 garlic clove (sliced)
* 2 pieces cinnamon (soaked in hot water)
* 5 cardamoms (soaked in hot water)
* 50 g ginger (grated)
* 1 tsp fennel seed (soaked in hot water)
* 100 g ghee
* 2 litre coconut milk
* 2 curry leaves
* salt to season
== Directions ==
# Crush the onions with ginger and half of the garlic.
# Put some water into it, cover and keep.
# Melt the ghee in a pot.
# Add in the water from soaked cinnamon, cardamom, and fennel seed into the pot and stir until all the water has evaporated.
# Add in the onions mix, garlic, cinnamon, cardamom into the ghee and fry until the onions are transparent.
# Add in the rice and fry until rice is slightly dried up.
# Add in the stock and seasoning.
# Stir once and bring to boil.
# When the water has boiled down to the top of the rice reduce the heat, cover the top of the pot.
# Stir.
# Simmer until all the water has evaporated.
# Remove from heat.
# Stir the rice after 10 minutes from removal from heat to separate the grains.
Category:Maldivian Vegetarian
Category:Curry Recipes
Category:Coconut milk Recipes
Category:Ginger Recipes
Category:Curry leaf Recipes
Category:Fennel seed Recipes
Category:Patna rice Recipes
Category:Cardamom Recipes
Category:Garlic Recipes
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