Beetroot Rice

Recipe: Beetroot Rice

Beetroot Rice is a simple, protein rich, slightly spicy, a bit sweetish rice dish. Customize it to your liking by adding veggies of your choice. Also a great recipe to use up leftover cooked rice. What I like about this recipe is that  it is not only full of flavours but it’s  so colourful. Enjoy it as a part of your thali meal, tastes absolutely delish with hot kadhi. Or have it as a meal on its own with some papad, fryums and yogurt.

My Sister In Law’s Recipe

The first time I had beetroot rice was when my hubby’s uncle invited us for Diwali dinner. My sister in law, Shreya made beetroot rice and she had added some fried fries (chips ) to the dish. We simply loved the rice and any excuse to enjoy some potato fries. For quite a while I followed her recipe the same way, adding fries.

My Version Of Beetroot Rice

Fast forward to the present and I try to add protein to every meal. It becomes a little difficult especially for vegetarians. Having said that paneer, chickpeas, tofu are always there in my fridge. So recently, when I made beetroot rice, I thought ” why serve paneer separately when I can add it to the rice”. And also adding more carbs to the dish didn’t make too much sense. It was fine when I preparing with fries so that the kids would enjoy beetroot.  Trust me, the beetroot rice turned out so much better with the paneer.

Sharing Beetroot Rice Recipe With Foodies_Redoing Old Posts

I had first posted Beetroot Rice recipe on 07/12/2012 with French fries added to it. So if you feel like go ahead and add some to the dish. Now I am posting my version of Beetroot Rice on 11/10/2025. This group, initiated by Renu who blogs at Cook With Renu, gives me the opportunity to do my old posts again with better write up, photos, adding videos and sometimes a slight change in the original recipe such as this one.

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Ingredients Required For Beetroot Rice

Rice

Cooke rice, preferably basmati. The rice should have separate grains and must be cold. Best to use leftover rice. If you don’t have any leftover rice, cook the rice and allow it to cool down completely. Generally 1 cup of basmati rice requires 2 cups of water. Usually 1 cup of uncooked rice yields 3 cups of cooked rice.

Beetroot

I prefer to use cooked beetroot for this recipe. Boil, steam or roast the beetroot. Peel and grate it.  Whenever I have used raw grated beetroot for this rice dish, the colour tends to be lighter and dull. Of course then you have to allow the beetroot to cook properly before adding the rice. We will be using about 1 cup cooked and grated beetroot.

Onion

We need about 1 cup of peeled and sliced onion. Usually a medium or slightly large onion. I prefer to use red onion for this recipe. However, you may use any type of onion red, white or yellow.

Garlic

Peeled and minced, we need about 1 tbsp.