Recipe - Bharatti

2 cup Basmati rice (Carolina will
Do)
2 md Onions
bn Fresh basil leaves (about
Half cup when chopped)
1 tablespoon Curry powder (mild or hot,
According to preference)
1 teaspoon Salt
4 tablespoon Good grade cooking oil
500 g (just over 1 lb) ground
Chicken or lean pork

Chop onions and fry in 2 tbsp oil until just starting to brown. Add meat
and curry powder, stir until brown. Scoop out onions and meat, leaving oil
in pan. Add dry rice and stir until transparent. Add 4 cups water and salt,
bring to boil, cover and cook over LOW flame for 15 mins or until all water
is absorbed. Add meat, onions, finely chopped basil and the rest of the
oil, stir and cook for another 3 mins.

(You could eat it now, but here comes the trick):

Put everything in shallow glass dish, cover with paper towel and microwave
on full power for another 10 to 15 mins. (YES, that long!)

The final ordeal in the microwave oven will turn the individual grains of
rice crispy on the outside, leaving their cores soft a heavenly crunchy
sensation.
Posted to MMRecipes Digest by "Robert Ellis" rpearson@snowcrest.net on
Feb 25, 1998