VEGTABLE FRIED RICE

INGREDIENTS:

Rice - 1 cup

Water - 2 cups

Oil - 3 tbsp

Cloves - 2

Cashew nuts - 4 or 5

Cinnamon - 1 small piece

Cardamom - 2

Green chilli - 2

Curry leaves - 1 string

Ginger garlic paste - 1tsp

Onion - 1 chopped

Potato - 1 chopped

Carrot - 1 chopped

Peas - 1/4 cup

Coriander leaves - for garnishing

Salt - to taste

PREPARATION:

1. Heat oil in a pan and add cashew nuts, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, green chilli, curry leaves, and fry.


2. Then add ginger garlic paste and saute it.


3. Add onions and fry till light brown.


4. Add potato, carrot and peas, saute it. Then add salt.


5. Add water and bring it to boil.


6. When water boils, add rice to it and mix well.


7. Transfer above mixture to electric rice cooker and let it cook OR you can transfer above mixture into steel vessel and put it in the pressure cooker for 3 or 4 whistles.


8. Let it cool down and transfer to serving tray.


9. Garnish with coriander leaves.
10. Serve with raitha and salad.

TAMARIND RICE (PULIHORA)

INGREDIENTS:

Rice - 1 cup

Tamarind paste - 1/2 cup

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - 2 strings

Peanuts - 2 tbsp

Cashew nuts - 1 tbsp

Urad dal - 2 tsp

Channa dal - 1 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Green chillis - 3

Red chillis - 2

Asafoetida - a pinch

Oil - 4 tbsp

Salt - to taste

PREPARATION:

1. Soak tamarind in water and extract thick juice out of it.


2. Cook rice, and add salt, a little oil and mix it well and keep it aside.


3. Heat a pan, pour the tamarind extract, and add salt, turmeric powder in it, and cook until it become thick paste.


4. Add the cooked tamarind extract into the rice and mix well.


5. Heat oil in a pan, then add cashew nuts, peanuts, and fry for a while.


6. Then add urad dal, channa dal, cumin seeds, mustard, green chillis, red chillis, curry leaves, asafoetida, and fry till all these ingredients turn brown.


7. Then add these mix into the above prepared rice and mix very nicely and gently.


8. Tamarind rice is ready.
   

LEMON RICE

INGREDIENTS:

Raw rice - 1 cup

Lemon - 2

Salt - as required

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 2 tbsp

Peanuts - 2 tbsp

Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Red chillis - 2

Asafoetida- a pinch

Curry leaves - 1 string

PREPARATION:

1. Cook rice and allow it to cool in a broad vessel.
2. Add turmeric powder and 1 tsp oil on top of rice when it is still hot.
3. Heat oil in a pan ,add peanuts and fry for 10 sec.
4. Add mustard seeds, urad dal, red chili's, and fry for a minute.
5. Now add asafoetida and turn off the stove.
6. Pour this mixture into cooled rice with enough salt.
7. Squeeze lemon juice and mix well.
8. Garnish with curry leaves.