Priya Makes Chile Peanut Rice | From the Test Kitchen | Bon Appétit 

Molly: Why does it taste like butter popcorn? Priya: *thinks about the 1 full cup of ghee...* Priya: I think it's the peanuts!

BA phase 1 of the shared universe ended yesterday with Making a Perfect Pizza. Lookin forward to the multiverse.

I love that every Priya video is mostly just chatting but incidentally she's also cooking something

Priya is such a gheek and I love her enthusiasm.

My wife hears Priya's voice from the other room: "Oh you watching your little girlfriend again?"

I really love Priya’s videos she so bright and willing to talk about her own experiences and I think it makes her videos stand out. KEEP IT UP BA !

The Rick-Chris hug at 5:00... I felt that

Priya: Our neighbor's name was Helen Mary, and I forgot what her husband's name was... Graphics: *YELLOW ONION*

RU-vid commenters: (every video) omg what a dork she always calls her family Priya: *doesn’t call her family RU-vid commenters: omg why didn’t she call her family?!?!

If you added turmeric powder while sautéing along with chana dal and some cilantro and some extra lemon, it is lemon rice.

BA's videos have somewhat of a The Office quality to its editing style. I love that.

*Hindi translations for every ingredient:* Rice - Chawal Curry leaves - curry Patta Mustard seeds - sarson Peanuts - Mumphali Chilly- Mirchi Onions - Piyaaz

Nobody: Priya: Just take this barrel of Ghee

Priya: “My mom cooks mustard seeds on high-“ Me: “Jesus. Why?” Priya: “-because she’s a maniac.” Me: *Cackling*

We need more Priya videos! Recently found her and tried to binge her videos but there weren't enough for a full binge.

Me: skips ahead to find Priya’s inevitable family FaceTime Also me: *where is it* Update: disappointed but I still support you Priya

Is it just me or is the audio not synced properly?

I remember when I did my first food flip in a hot pan. I was like 15 years old, working as a dishwasher for a guy who was, spoiler alert, a complete a**hole. I had a load of dishes going and all his chefs were busy so he comes back to the little grandma stove in my area and puts on a side of mushrooms on searing high heat. Then like 2 minutes later he shouts back "KID! FLIP THE MUSHROOMS!" I thought, this is my moment to become a chef, so I start looking around and the guy shouts "I DIDN'T TELL YOU TO LOOK AROUND! I SAID 'FLIP----THE----MUSHROOMS!'" "But I don't have a spatula!" "I SAID FLIP THE F**KING MUSHROOMS RIGHT F**KING NOW!" So, I grabbed it and thought back to Food Network and flipped them. I felt so proud when I didn't come out with third-degree burns.

If she doesn't facetime some family member i'm rioting Update: i'm outside the wtc with a torch and a pitchfork

I love that Santa story... Imagining the smell of cookies and pipe smoke.

Really enjoy watching her. She brings a new element to the show. Absolutely adorable

Thank you for putting this recipe up!

Can we get that Momma Priya pomegranate and mint and pistachio rice recipe? It sounds amazing and I need it.

That Santa story was the most wholesome thing I’ve heard all year

Absolutely love her, it's like chatting but she's also cooking

I feel the key to the pan flip is just to go in with confidence. If you choke even a little bit the chances of flinging your food all over the place go up exponentially. Also having a properly non-stick pan with nice sloped sides helps a lot. I've tried it in a cast iron pan with nearly vertical walls and it's very difficult. In that circumstance you almost have to launch it vertically like flipping a pancake.

All of Priya’s recipes are so amazing I can’t wait to make this one! I make her Palak Feta at least twice a week and I can’t wait for my copy of her book to arrive tomorrow!!!

Priya is just lovely, how does BA have such a great crew?!

Watch Morocco in the background of these videos. His power stances are out of control. The man is a major threat.

“my mom cooks mustard seed on high heat because she’s a *MANIAC* “

Priya: *says a bunch of things nobody does* also Priya: “we’ve all done that” :D

I’m not Indian but I typically love all Indian food and me being a pretty good cook, I decided to try to make this and let me tell you, it became a full on adventure. Just trying to find all of the ingredients was such a pain and I was trying to be lazy and not drive all the way to my Indian store which is like 20 minutes from my house (actually not that bad but again, I was trying to be lazy). My local grocery store which is 3 minutes from my house did not have black mustard seed, fresh curry leaves (which I expected but was hoping they’d surprise me), dry curry leaves, limes, or even unshelled unsalted roasted peanuts. Why were they missing basic things like limes and peanuts? I have no idea. I ended up buying a little bottle of yellow mustard seed and figured I could just add more like the internet said I could do as a substitute, I bought a little bottle of lime juice instead of a fresh lime, and I bought a bag of roasted shelled peanuts and got to unshelling at home, lazy goals shot. I thought ghee would be hard to find too but it was the easiest, it’s kept near the coconut oil. Then I went on amazon and decided to see if I could have curry leaves delivered the next day but for me they were only offering 25lb bags and this recipe only calls for 10 leaves so I was like wtf, no. I decided to suck it up and make the trip to the Indian store. They had both the black mustard seed and the fresh curry leaves. I get home and start cooking. First try, I get to the point where you add peanuts, forgot the next step, looked up the recipe, read through it, and realized the mustard seeds were supposed to pop within seconds and mine had been sitting unpopped for like 5 minutes because I didn’t heat up the pan at first. I tried a little bit and they tasted burned so I got worried and tossed out the whole thing and started over. Next attempt, the peanuts weren’t browning. Getting worried that I had the mustard seeds on the heat for too long, I tasted them again, and again they tasted burnt. At that point I’m like “screw it, I don’t even know what it’s supposed to taste like, I’m just gonna roll with it”. I proceed to take a few uncooked mustard seeds and throw them in my mouth to see what it even tastes like uncooked. 😳🤪 BAD. IDEA. I still don’t know if I did it wrong 🤷‍♀️ In the end, my favorite part of this dish was the onion and I didn’t really get any Indian flavors other than like peanuts (?). I felt like the peppers should be more pronounced since they were only slit in the middle and by the time they were soft enough to start breaking down in the mixture, the onions were completely brown. If I repeat this recipe, the peppers are going in the pan from the very start with the peanuts to finish with the onions and I’d put the peanuts in before the mustard seed. I also think there should be a step to reheat the rice, so I’d toss everything in the pan on high for a quick reheat.

Omg Priya’s title as a contributing writer made me 🥰🥰🥰🥰

I love her stories! I think a lot of people families can relate to food stories like this.

Add some turmeric to peanut mix and it will be a gorgeous golden dish looking flamboyant af

*sees Rhoda execute some high-quality pan flips* "Dang, wedding ring is present."

Priya, thank you for making this beautiful food so friendly and doable. I have already made your bhajis, hoping to make this dish next week!

Replace ghee with peanut oil, add a teaspoon of split blackpeas and split chikpeas each after mustard seeds and roast till brown, followed by half a teaspoon of turmeric powder, replace basmati with any normal indian rice prepared a few hours earlier, skip onions, add freshly grated coconut in the end for garnish with finely chopped cilantro, voila! Its the humble "chitranna"/ lemon rice of south India... :) Can add capsicum and tomatoes with onion too for a different flavour.. Similar ingredients, but taste soo different... Diverse, but belong to one country... India... :)

The husband's name was apparently Yellow Onion

If anyone interested, Molly Rhoda and Adam did 3 separate podcast for Working, talking about how they do their work in BA, I actually really like Rhoda from that she sounds like a nice person

Made this last night - it's outstanding (esp. when I added more lime juice & salt). And, despite Priya's enthusiasm for ghee, I expect it will be almost as good with easily half the amount of ghee. Which I will test soon enough.

This is not the same. Priya didn't call her family! Is it really a Priya video if she didn't call her family?

That Santa, cookie/pipe story is one of the best believer stories ever! Love it.

Chris at his perch always brings great comfort into my heart.

Me : isn't chilli spelled chilli ? BA: CHILE!!!! Me: ok bye

I need more Tommy and Rhoda content in my life!

Priya: I can't do that flip thing in the pan. Me: You're not making us lefties LOOK GOOD PRIYA!

7:58 - I don't recognize this person, but her time machine looks pretty cool.

4:19 it’s a tadka Priya!!

Is it not a Chris video if he doesn't smell food first? Is it not a Claire video if she doesn't have an existential crisis about tempering? Is it not a Brad video without ... Brad's shenanigans? --- Is it not a Priya video without her family? :(

Is Rick okay? He was hugging a lot of people in the background! :((

I really enjoyed Chris and Rick's hug at 5:01.

One way one of the chefs i worked for showed me how to the pan sauteing flip. Was the motion of tilting the pan down then up and back(pull back towards you). So down,up, and back. So it feels like a fluent and natural motion. Basically creating a circle motion. Our bodies likes to create and do fluent motions and thats one thing ive learned and have been taught working in the kitchen. If you pay attention to knife skills as well is fluent and smooth the up and down and back and forwards. And stirring. Its all basically circles in different degrees.

I hope Priya, Alex, Emil and gabby are a bigger part of the next Making Perfect season (burgers and fries please!)

this video is like the cooldown after *making perfect*

Priya is the human equivalent of the recipe blogs that include a long, generally unrelated personal narrative before listing the recipe.

I officially have a BIG crush on Priya. My God the feelings.

You can tell restaurant employees don't watch this channel because there isn't a sea of comments talking about how an author of a cookbook can't toss a pan or cut onions quickly.

the curly hair goddess in the beginning!!!!!!

Rhoda comes in the do the pan flip demo :) I know she is the video director for BA, but it's good to know she has kitchen skills too. She should guest in videos more often.

1 - this looks awesome, props to Priya as always! Her food always looks fantastic! 2 - I miss the whole test kitchen :( Priya and Molly are a couple of my favorites...

Basmati tastes like popcorn. Basmati plus ghee tastes like buttered popcorn. Well, duh!!!

I just feel such a kinship with Priya. I'm also the daughter of Indian immigrants raised in Dallas, Texas. I love cooking and my recipes are heavily influenced by my mom's Indian cooking and the Tex-Mex I grew up around. So nice to feel represented 💕

If everybody hugged like 5:00, there would be no war...

Priya, what happened when you went to Helen Mary's house and it smelled like your christmas presents? I loved that story

5:02 biggest bro hug there ever has been at the BA test kitchen

anyone else notice a subtle audio-video sync mismatch?

Priya is quickly becoming my favorite chef on this channel. I'm going to need to buy her cookbook soon and start learning to make more Indian dishes.

"I like things a little limey." There's a British imperialism joke in here somewhere that I'm not clever enough to make.

Love savory peanut dishes. Love the Santa story, too.

i love priya's style of commentary! very friendly and conversational, plus i just think her voice is relaxing to listen to :' D

I'm simple. I see Claire or Priya I immediately click view

That’s lemon rice y’all! She just skipped the turmeric.

6:57 I thought this was the part where she face times her fam 🤣

Priya : *trying not to talk about her dad* Also priya : my mom also... Lmao jk i love her

I dont cook that much ... i just love seeing the people at ba cook ... especially priya Idk why it just calms me down 😂❤️

Initially I thought this was a bit slow, and then she got to the "the word for computer in Hindi is computer" lololol

Did anyone else get upset when she placed the hot pan on the beautiful wood cutting board and burned it?!?!?

Rice is love, rice is life

The vibe of Priya’s videos are so relaxing and fun at the same time. I want to cook and chill with friends and find a spot to store all the tubs of ghee I’ll need.

This way of cooking mustard seeds makes them taste bittes.. Your mom is not a maniac to cook mustard seeds on high heat.... Thats how its done...

Oooo this would go great with some of the Filipino food we’re making!!!

Priya is contending for #1 spot on my favorite RU-vidr list. The other contestant is Rie from Tasty.

I think this recipe is originally from Karnataka"about India", because I remember my grandma made this for me😋😋🤤🤤

Yes More Priya please! Come on BA support her better by giving her talent the focus. Fix the audio and less bloggy style.

Fun Fact, Refrigerated day old rice has a Carb count of about 50% less than regular fresh cooked rice

Priya: This part of the recipe you dont have to do it _exactly_ like this.. BUT WAIT Actually yes you do. DO IT!

Jeez! It's not just peanut and computer in Hindi 😏 Peanut = munphali Computer = sanganak

I add coconut shavings to it.........it tastes amazing.

My mom makes something similar to this called "lemon peanut rice" ... she adds turmeric to give the rice a nice yellow colour (plus turmeric has wonderful anti-inflammatory, anti-free radical properties). She also adds some other types of lentils in it. It's bomb.

Aw man I love the BA cast so much! Each time I see a new person I didn't know about before, it's so fun since they all have such different personalities!

Nice video guys, love her personality

Im diggin that faded demin apron. I want to have a stylish apron like the editors at BA.

I love her! She’s so positive and fun! 😊😊😊

You know what I REALLY want from a Priya video? Her whole family to actually join her in the test kitchen. Because I love her and her fam dynamic.

Little Priya is too freaking cute and wholesome XD

* '5:00 pro level huging ^^ *

Thank you Priya, the more I learn about the varied Indian cuisines (and just like the US, Indian cuisines are regional) the more I love. To discover this particular simple yet delicious prep blows my mind. And with a well-stocked Indian bodega across the street (even better stocked than Kalustyan's online BTW, FML originally) I am set for life I think. Please teach more, you are awesome! Oh BTW I dare ya to make a biryani on here someday hah!

That Santa story is the most wholesome thing I've ever heard. Now I'm hungry AND heartwarmed

too much ghee even for an Indian