Brown rice plays a crucial role in the Healthy Living India kitchen. Thanks to this method of preparing brown rice in the microwave, you can cook brown rice in less than 30 minutes without having to watch over it. For instance, we’ve cooked brown rice while making our way through pitchers of Bishops and Screwdrivers, while watching Iron Man 2, and while freshening up after getting home from a workout. This post will also tell you how to cook brown...

One bowl of cooked white rice has about 200-250 calories. One bowl of cooked brown rice has about 200-220 calories. Not much difference there. But the high fibre content in brown rice aids digestion, its low Glycemic index slows down hunger, and some even say that brown rice helps lower bad cholesterol. So apart from the steam and bowl, how else can one cook brown rice? Here are three brown rice dishes that taste just as good as any white rice preparation.

What I like about this Oriental Egg Fried Rice recipe from the BBC Good Food Magazine is that it was light. It wasn’t an overwhelming soy sauce or five spice taste – it was almost like flavoured steamed rice. That and the fact that it fit into our favourite category of quick to make. And this recipe even works for meat-haters – they take away the egg and bacon. Then again, does it remain Oriental Egg Fried Rice… it’ll probably...

Vegetable pulao recipes look unintentionally complicated. There’s so much thrown open to circumstance, taste and timing, it’s no wonder that I found the idea of a vegetable pulao sans burnt edges, wilted vegetables and stickiness somewhat impossible. I first tried a chicken pulao, moved onto a three vegetable pulao, and finally settled on this pea pulao that I write about today. Oh to be the superhero who made cooking pulao look like a piece of cake for all the newbies...