Pilau Rice - British restaurant version

you need a really good quality basmati rice, i think our rice cost like £50-80 per 10kg bag so imagine spending £10-£15 for 1kg of quality basmati rice since it's smaller quantities.

then you just boil it (put oil into the water) add some jeera then at the end add food colouring

basically it's the quality of the rice which counts not how you cook it.

rice has gotten so expensive it's unbelievable 10 years ago that 10kg bag used to cost £20-30, it has now tripled in price.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
you need a really good quality basmati rice, i think our rice cost like £50-80 per 10kg bag so imagine spending £10-£15 for 1kg of quality basmati rice since it's smaller quantities.

then you just boil it (put oil into the water) add some jeera then at the end add food colouring

basically it's the quality of the rice which counts not how you cook it.

rice has gotten so expensive it's unbelievable 10 years ago that 10kg bag used to cost £20-30, it has now tripled in price.
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Is that gold plated basmati?

You can grab 10kg bags of basmati on Amazon for just over £10, surely it can't be that bad?
 
Jolteh said:
Is that gold plated basmati?

You can grab 10kg bags of basmati on Amazon for just over £10, surely it can't be that bad?
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im pretty sure you can, but in comparison to £50 bags it will taste awful.

our suppliers one week couldn't get a delivery to use due to that awful snow that happened not this past winter but the one before that.

we had to use cheaper basmati and customers noticed straight away and we had tons of complaints, we had to tell them it was due to the weather and they still didn't get it and said they wouldn't order unless they got the other rice, which was impossible to get.


there is a huge difference in quality in the £10 bags and £50 bags, restaurants make zero profit on the rice they sell, they make it on everything else to make up for it usually is they are using decent rice.

i know chinese places use dirt cheap rice, i mean dirt, dirt cheap, they then add so much other stuff to disguise the taste.
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
you need a really good quality basmati rice, i think our rice cost like £50-80 per 10kg bag so imagine spending £10-£15 for 1kg of quality basmati rice since it's smaller quantities.

then you just boil it (put oil into the water) add some jeera then at the end add food colouring

basically it's the quality of the rice which counts not how you cook it.

rice has gotten so expensive it's unbelievable 10 years ago that 10kg bag used to cost £20-30, it has now tripled in price.
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LOL. What utter rubbish. I ask, for the 100th time, what takeaway do your parents own? I'll come and see if the rice is worth what you pay for it.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
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i know chinese places use dirt cheap rice, i mean dirt, dirt cheap, they then add so much other stuff to disguise the taste.
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Ahleckz said:
LOL. What utter rubbish. I ask, for the 100th time, what takeaway do your parents own? I'll come and see if the rice is worth what you pay for it.
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I find that offensive if anything Indian food is made up to disguise the taste of crap ingredients. Chinese/Taiwanese take great pride in rice , try Thai rice which you normally get in the UK compared to Taiwanese rice totally different.

Once again Psycho you talk utter nonsense :rolleyes:
 
it's been leased out for quite a while now, we just own the property.

but i know how much the rice costs because i used to pay the delivery driver of the company who used to deliver it to us when we ran it.

it was £60-80 a bag depending on the season from a main supplier.

then we managed to find a company selling them for roughly £40-£60 a bag.

again i have no idea how big the bag was, the chef's would know that, im guessing it was 10kg's it could have been 15 or 20kg though, but it looked like 10kg to me.

but we did use high quality stuff, the chef in charge of the kitchen refused to buy cheap ingredients.


for instance you can buy a bag of king prawns in makro for £10 or you can get a small box of king prawns from a russian company for £90.

the difference is quality. i basically had to tell the chef i would rather take king prawns off the menu than pay £90 a box, either use the £10 bags and put more in the curries or i'll take it off the menu.

we couldn't fire the chef because he was family
 
Coming from an Indian background I eat rice very regularly. I've got to agree with Psycho Sonny, the brand and quality does matter. However I'm not sure on the price.

As for making rice:
- Wash rice
- Add some lohng (cloves)
- Boil it for 15 or 20 mins
- Throw some jeera in there

Serve
 
Ricochet J said:
Mattar (peas) has no place in rice on my plate.
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your missing out bro, hardly ever eat rice though normally just have roti (chapati), rice is seen as a commoner's dish in punjabi where my family originally comes from, in reality it's a lot healthier for you imo. because apnay usually smother the roti's in butter.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
your missing out bro, hardly ever eat rice though normally just have roti (chapati), rice is seen as a commoner's dish in punjabi where my family originally comes from, in reality it's a lot healthier for you imo. because apnay usually smother the roti's in butter.
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I'm from a punjabi background too, and I hate the amount of butter/makani/ghee they smear over roti. I do like rice more, but I don't bother including mattar.
 
Ahleckz said:
LOL. What utter rubbish. I ask, for the 100th time, what takeaway do your parents own? I'll come and see if the rice is worth what you pay for it.
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Shimla in Paisley. Please please go there to see how amazing his super fantastic amazing curries are!
 
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