Somali Rice

[LivingToSucceed]

with no spicy and banana doesnt taste good.

[Enlightened~Sista]

I only have banana in smoothies, or by itself.

[Knight of Wisdom]

I hate RICE.

I love me pasta, with banana, salad, spice, and ZAYTUN drink.

[Berke]

What do you mean spicy? You add hot sauce to your rice? Or do you make your own bisbaas? I seen people eating rice with honey mustard, others with ranch and shit and some even with mayo. I guess rice goes with everything depending on who you are. Personally I don't even eat it with bananas as I think I have developed allergies to them in the last few years.

Rice > Pasta.

[kambuli]

Living,

Dee ku darso basbaaska

[HalfDzed]

kambuli,

Why do Soomaalida make the rice hard & dry these days? It wasn't like that back home.

But, lately, everytime I buy at the masjid after Jumu'ah prayers or go to a friend's house, its very hard and almost under-cooked.

I know its basmati they're using, which takes longer, but is it also because they like it hard & under-cooked?

[Berke]

kambuli,

Why do Soomaalida make the rice hard & dry these days? It wasn't like that back home.

But, lately, everytime I buy at the masjid after Jumu'ah prayers or go to a friend's house, its very hard and almost under-cooked.

I know its basmati they're using, which takes longer, but is it also because they like it hard & under-cooked?

I think it tastes better the way they cook it. I had rice that was like soor and it was horrible as I hate soor. The rice they grow i Somalia and Ethiopia always turns out like that and it is probably the reason rice was made less dry back in Somalia.

[kambuli]

Half,

Basmati takes very short time. I think they are trying to cook like the Afgans...But what they don't know is that, Afgan's rice looks hard but it is very soft when eaten...

It is dry I believe because they want to eat with sauce Hilib?Kaluun etc Dee isku dhexkaris maaha...

When you take the rice to your house, just add little water and put into the microwave for about 3 minutes!

[HalfDzed]

Berke,

That's what I heard too. But doesn't it give you indigestion & reflux afterwards? I never eat rice at night because it leaves me with major gas. That stuff just sits there forever. I found out they dry-age basmati in India/Pakistan and when they're cooking it, traditionally soak it over-night. But, we don't do that. And if you microwave it, then put it in the refrigerator, you can't even eat it the next day, it becomes so hard & crumbles, it tastes very stale.


kambuli,

Is cali uraaye basmati? That was some good bariis back in the day. Soomaalida maxeey u aflagadeen jireen? Soo kii dalka laga soo saari jiray ma aheen?

Basmati looks good & stands alone, it doesn't get all mushy like white rice. But, if cooked the wrong way, it becomes unbearable.

How do you cook it? Over the stove or in the oven?

[kambuli]

Berke,

Soor!! Yumy Yumy...Why did you remind me When you eat soor with a nice sanuunad made with hilib ari..and shigni and eat with moos....Yumy Yumy..You are missing something...It depends how they cook the rice;

Half,

Cali uraaye was not Basmati...Back home they used to have Baasarce...Only very very few families could afford the Basmati..
The rice in general is different from the very begining..Some rice are supposed to stick together anyway, like rice we used to call Bariis Talyaani

What kind of rice you want to know how to cook? The white? Iskudhexkaris? The one typical Somalis do???Which one are we talking here?

[HalfDzed]

kambuli,

I remember basarac, they have it here too, at the halal meats. Usually costs half of what basmati costs.

Just the general rice, you know the one they serve at weddings/martiqaads? With hilib ari & veggies?

What was so bad about baastada dalka? There used to be bad PR against it too. Everyone wanted Santa Luca, do you remember?

[Berke]

Basmati is really expensive even now in Somalia. But it is not the basmati they have here as it doesn't taste good. And I found out the way they make it dry is they put in the oven for a good amount of time after it is cooked.

[LivingToSucceed]

berke: my own basbas,hot sauce, ranch, mayo, limo danan, and anything that can make my baris taste good, but somali basbas is the besttt .

[kambuli]

Half,

Who can I forget santa lucia But the funny thing was when you see an elderly lady, when cooking pasta, throwing one pasta to the wall to check if it is ready

Somali style rice, the aroos kind is made like either this:

1. They put some oil on the pan, fry onion till it is transparent, then add the cumin/hail(Cardamon), garlic, few sticks of cinnamon, whole black peppers and cilantro. Fry a little bit, making sure the garlic didn't burn then add the rice, fry it and lastly add boiling water and they use chicken cubes instead of salt...When it is about to finish all the water they put it in the oven...sits there for 10-15 minuties..For every cup of rice you need two cups of water..

2.Others when they fry all the other ingredients except the rice, they add the water and they add the rice to the boiling water/ingredients..The same way they put in the oven.

It is all about preference I usually add vinegar and lemon etc and you can add your own spices...

3. Others soak the rice before cooking.

4. Others also boil the rice and drain water as if they are cooking spagetti