Amla Rice

Amla rice

Amla or Indian gooseberry is well known for its enormous health benefits. Gooseberry or Nellikai is the richest source of Vitamin C and is proven to be the best immune booster. It also increases skin health & nourish healthier hair.

With so many health benefits should include them in our diet at least during the season when markets are flooded with these fresh amla berry.

The amla fruit is eaten raw or cooked into various dishes. Although this fruit is a bit sour in taste, but it leaves sweetness on the tongue after eating it raw.

It can be taken in the form of fresh fruit or dried, or juice (can be combined with honey), pickle and used to prepare dal.

Amla rice Recipe is a super easy and healthy vegetarian dish that is loaded with the goodness of gooseberries also known as amla. Serve it as a quick weeknight dinner along with any raita or buttermilk.

The tempering/tadka of the amla along with chillies, peanuts and some seasoning when mixed along with rice, makes it a perfect dish that can be packed as tiffin box for kids or lunch box for office.

Also known as : nellikai rice, gooseberry rice, usirikaya rice

Below is the step by step Gooseberry Rice Recipe

Ingredients for Amla Rice:

• Amla/ Indian gooseberry - 4 or 5
• Rice - 1 cup (pprox. 250 grms)
• For tadka: Oil, Mustard seeds, Jeera/Cumin seeds, Urad dal, Peanuts, Green chillies, Curry leaves.
• Salt - as per taste
• Turmeric

Preparation of Amla Rice:

1. For making of amla rice we need cooked rice, so before starting the preparation, cook the rice in advance either by steaming or boiling method.

Or if you have leftover cooked rice then even it can be used for this recipe.

2. Cut the fresh amla into small pieces discarding the seeds from it.

3. Take a mixer jar and add amla pieces, green chillies, little salt & a pinch of turmeric and blend it into a rough coarse paste.

4. Heat a frying pan or kadai, firstly prepare tadka for that add peanuts, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, dry red chillies, urad dal, curry leaves and saute it for few seconds.

Tadka for Amla rice

5. Now, add the amla spice blended paste mixture. Stir to combine all the ingredients well. Add the sufficient salt to it. Turn the heat to low and stir well for another 5 to 10 minutes until the rawness from the amla goes away.

6. Finally, add the cooked rice, and mix well. Check the taste for salt. 

Amla rice

Cover the pan with the lid and simmer on low heat for a couple of minutes.

Turn off the heat.

Amla rice

Serving Idea of Amla rice:

Amla(Gooseberry) Rice goes well with papads or chips and any other main course dishes for lunch and dinner , It also makes a perfect lunch box recipe or brunch.

Serve Amla Rice along with raita for a weekday dinner.

Amla or Indian gooseberry rice is delicious as well as easy to prepare rice. Made by the bigger variety of amla. Quick and easy to make rice variety, it’s very similar to Lemon Rice or Raw Mango Rice. Like Raw mango, we can also grate the gooseberries and prepare it in no matter of time, Amla rice will ready! It is a healthy kids Lunch box dish.

For some variations we can substitute rice with any cooked millets and make this Indian gooseberry rice much healthier. We can also use Flattened rice (poha rice) or cooked vermicelli too instead of regular rice.

We can serve Amla rice with any stir-fry veggies.

You may also like the other quick healthy Rice recipes:

Gongura(Sorrel leaves) rice

Khichdi Andhra Style

Do try this Amla Rice Recipe and let me know how did you liked it in the comments below.