Yellow Fragrant Rice - A Taste of Vegetarian

[asha_76]

Has anyone else tried the Yellow Fragrant Rice recipe from A Taste of Vegetarian (page 42 in my copy)?

I made it tonight as a side dish and it was terrible, in fact no-one in the family could eat it.

I did use basmati rice instead of jasmine and only used 200g instead of 330g but there seemed to be something majorly wrong with the flavours here, in fact I still have a horrible taste in my mouth a couple of hours later.  I feel like there was way too much cumin and/or turmeric even though I put in the quantities that were listed in the book.

If anyone else has had a similar experience with this dish I'd be interested to know!

[faffa_70]

hmm not sure what would have been wrong, except that Jasmine rice does have a distinct flavour that Basmati doesn't ... not sure if that would have changed anything. 

What version is your book asha? Looking at my book I would have thought the quantities were ok 

[asha_76]

At first I wondered if it was because I swapped jasmine for basmati but I really don't think that was the problem, as it seemed to be the taste of the other ingredients that was so off-putting.

I have the March 2011 version of the book.  That one uses 1 teaspoon ground cumin and 2 tablespoons turmeric.  At the time I wondered if it was too much turmeric but thought I would see what happened as I knew it was also going to colour the rice.