This is a traditional rice dish usually prepared on auspicious occasions for pujas or vratams.Its an easy dish and takes less time to make compared to chintapandu pulihora or tamarind rice. You can make this for kids lunch box.Kids will love this dish and its taste.
INGREDIENTS:
white rice raw-2 cups
water-4cups
oil for tadka-4tbspn
lemon juice from 2 medium sized
turmeric-1-2tspn
green chilli-10
red chilli-4-6
mustard seeds-2tspn
cumin seeds-2tspn
urad daal-2tspn
chana daal(soaked)-2tspn
roasted peanuts-4spn
curry leaves-2tspn
hing
salt
cilantro-4tspn
COOKING PROCESS:
First wash the rice add water and cook in a rice cooker or pressure cooker by adding 1spoon oil or ghee so that rice when cooked comes out dry not mushy. Then after rice is done add lemon juice and salt and let it cool down meanwhile make preparations for tadka or popu.
Take a kadai and add oil to it. Once it is warm add remaining ingedients except cilantro to kadai and once they start spluttering switch off the gas and add hing and turmeric.(add spices acc to your taste)
Add this tadka to the rice and stir well till all the rice gets coated evenly and taste for salt and lemon juice and add accordingly.
Finally add cilantro and serve hot with coconut chutney or curd.
