Garhwali Tehri

Turmeric rice with potatoes — a simple one-pot rice preparation where potato cubes are cooked together with rice in a light stock coloured with turmeric, bay leaf, whole cumin, and green cardamom in ghee. The potatoes absorb the spiced rice water and become soft and flavourful. Much simpler and lighter than biryani — no fried onions, no marination, no layering. The everyday rice preparation of Garhwali households, eaten at lunch with dal and a sabzi.