Parsi Brown Rice Recipe

Indian food is a combination of various flavours-salty, sweet, bitter, sour and hot. Ideally these flavors should not only balance within a dish but a good meal should include dishes that balance each other's flavours too. Though it is a traditional parsi dish, parsi brown rice is the perfect accompaniment to the savoury flavours of any curry as it has a very mild sweet taste due to the caramelised sugar that is added to it while cooking. The fried onions in it also impart some of the sweet taste-onions are rich in natural sugars. Parsi brown rice is also highly aromatic thanks to the whole spices used to cook it. Even though it is made with a long-grained white rice like basmati, it gets its brown color from the caramelised sugar. I learned how to make parsi brown rice from my sister-in-law-to-be, zenia. She is of parsi heritage and an excellent cook and learned to make this dish from her granny. Parsi brown rice is traditionally served with dhansak and kachumbar salad in most parsi homes. This is the perfect family lunch and one that begs a satisfied siesta after