⏱ Total Time: 45 minutes (prep & cooking)

🍚 Yield: ~2.5 kg (fills 6 standard takeaway containers)

🌶 Spice Level: Mild | Medium | Hot | Extra Hot

Cooking Method

• Stove top in a saucepan
• Blender (only if making your own ginger/garlic paste)

Ingredients

• 75 ml oil
• 200 g onion, diced small (approx. 6 mm)
• 100 g ginger garlic paste
• 1 sachet Chilli Farms Keema Rice Spice Mix
• 500 g mince (chicken, lamb, beef, goat, paneer, or tofu)
• 500 g green peas
• 30 g lemon juice
• 500 g raw basmati rice
• 1 litre water (for cooking rice)
• 30 g fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped (optional, for garnish)

Method

1. Prepare ingredients – Soak rice for at least 30 minutes (longer is better).
2. If making your own paste, blend equal parts ginger and garlic to a smooth paste using a little water if needed.
3. Finely chop coriander leaves (optional garnish) and set aside.
4. Heat a saucepan over medium flame, add sunflower oil.
5. Add diced onions and cook until light brown.
6. Add ginger garlic paste and cook until the oil separates.
7. Lower flame to low, add spice mix, and cook until oil separates again.
8. Turn heat back to medium, add mince, and cook for ~10 minutes, stirring to prevent sticking (it may not be fully cooked yet).
9. Add lemon juice and water, bring to a gentle boil.
10. Add soaked basmati rice. Cook ~5 minutes on high, then 5–8 minutes on low, ensuring it does not stick to the bottom.
11. Switch off the flame, garnish with coriander (optional), and rest with the lid closed for 15 minutes.

Serving Suggestion

Keema Rice is a complete meal, best enjoyed warm with a side of cooling Raita.

Spice Mix Ingredients (for reference)

Bay leaves, cinnamon stick, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, whole black pepper, coriander seeds, Kashmiri chilli, mustard seeds, turmeric, salt. (Ratios vary per spice level.)

Dietary Info (Spice Mix)

Preservative-free | MSG-free | Gluten-free | Dairy-free | Lactose-free | Nut-free | Peanut-free | Onion-free | Garlic-free | Egg-free | Fish-free | Lupin-free | Sesame-free | Shellfish-free | Soy-free