{"id":5659,"date":"2014-12-02T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2014-12-04T12:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:13:46","slug":"amira-pure-basmati-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/amira-pure-basmati-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Amira Pure Basmati Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5660\" src=\"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141129-P1100825.jpg\" alt=\"20141129-P1100825\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is always a pleasure to cook good Basmati rice, that&#8217;s not a cheap long grained rice that&#8217;s been \u00a0passed off for Basmati, and one whose fragrance just fills the house while you&#8217;re cooking.<\/p>\n<p>I was quite curious about this rice, therefore, and it turned out to be really good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5661\" src=\"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141129-P1100827-575x431.jpg\" alt=\"20141129-P1100827\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141129-P1100827-575x431.jpg 575w, https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20141129-P1100827.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made a very nice Pilaf with it- a <a href=\"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/recipe\/chicken-chickpeas-pilaf-pulao\/\">Chicken and Chickpeas Pilaf<\/a>, that my family and friends absolutely loved.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5665\" src=\"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Chicken-and-Pulao--575x431.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken and Pulao\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Chicken-and-Pulao--575x431.jpg 575w, https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Chicken-and-Pulao-.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rice cooked beautifully and the Pilaf was delicious as well.<\/p>\n<p>When cooked the grains were long, fragrant and stayed apart and didn&#8217;t stick together or break.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say I rather like it.<\/p>\n<p>Amira Basmati rice is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/groceries.morrisons.com\/webshop\/getCategories.do?tags=%7C105651%7C102705%7C102605%7C102615%7C107871\">Morrisons.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This rice\u00a0was sent to me to review, the opinions are entirely my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always a pleasure to cook good Basmati rice, that&#8217;s not a cheap long grained rice that&#8217;s been \u00a0passed off for Basmati, and one whose fragrance just fills the house while you&#8217;re cooking. I was quite curious about this rice, therefore, and it turned out to be really good. I made a very nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5659"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}