Pakistani
Sada Chawal (Plain Boiled Basmati)
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Sada Chawal (Plain Boiled Basmati) is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the rice in several changes of water until the water runs clear, which takes four or five rinses.
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Soak it 20 minutes and drain. Soaked basmati cooks longer in the grain and stays separate.
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Bring the water to a rolling boil with the salt and the teaspoon of oil.
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Tip the drained rice in and boil uncovered 7 minutes, testing a grain: it should be cooked through with the faintest firmness left.
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Drain immediately in a colander and shake off the water.
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Return the rice to the warm dry pot, cover, and let it steam off the heat for 10 minutes before forking the grains apart.
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Serve it with
A Pakistani dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sada Chawal (Plain Boiled Basmati), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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The cooked vegetable
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sada Chawal (Plain Boiled Basmati) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 230 kcal
- Protein
- 5 g
- Carbs
- 50 g
- Fat
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Sada Chawal (Plain Boiled Basmati) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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