Besibellabath/Sambhar rice

This mixed rice is something I dread when I was a little child. It was really spicy then.

Now I love to have a big serving of it in one sitting..such a yummy fab delicious dish…with lotsa of veggies in it…nice and glossy…

Ingredients:

1. Vegetables – Drumstick, brinjal, carrot, cauliflower, potato, long beans, green peas (1 of each)
2. finely chopped onions - 2
3. finely chopped tomatoes – 2
4. Soaked rice – 2 cup
5. Sambhar paruppu – 1 cup
6. Asafodiea powder – ½ tbsp
7. malli (coriander ) seeds – 1 tbsp
8. jeerakham seeds – 1 tbsp
9. dry red chilli – 1-2
10. turmeric powder – a pinch
11. salt to taste
12. 1 handful of grated coconut/coppara

Method of preparation:

1. Soak the rice and sambhar paruppu (already washed) in 7 cup of water for 10-15 mintues
2. in a kadai, fry deeply the grated coconut/coppara, coriander seeds,red dry chilli, jeerakham seeds, Asafodiea powder, 1-2 pearl onions, 1 strand of curry leaves with little oil.
3. Grind the above mix and keep it aside
4. in a deep bottom kadai, pour some oil and fry the chopped vegetables mentioned above with little salt and pinch of turmeric powder.
5. Add the ground paste to the above fried vegetables and just cook for 5 minutes
6. Now in a pressure cooker, mix the soaked rice and sambhar paruppu with the water to the above mix and cook it till 3 whistles.

It should come out like a nice, over cooked rice….something like sticky sticky consistency.


Mix the whole stuff well and garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Adjust the salt after tasting it.

Enjoy with pappadam/pappad, mixture, potato chips.....

Kariveppalla/Curry leaf chutney

First to talk about the importance of curry leaves…it is rich in calcium…good for health…for hair growth etc etc….

My front yard has a big curry plant/tree…and once it is blooms, the whole front yard gets a spread of this plant…


Ingredients:

• 1 /2 tbsp of mustard seeds
• cooking oil – 1 tbsp
• 1 tbsp – uzhundhu dhal seeds
• 1 tbsp – kadala paruppu
• salt to taste
• 1 small piece of tamarind
• Handful of curry leaves
• 1 – finely chopped onion
• 1- finely chopped tomatoes
• 1-2 green chillies slited
• 1-2 dry red chilli

Method of preparation:

• In a heavy bottom pan, pour out some cooking oil and throw all the above ingredients and fry it till it becomes dry.
• Grind it very well with little water.

For seasoning:
• In a pan, heat little cooking oil and splutter the mustard seeds and dry broken red chilli

Pour out the seasoning to the above ground curry leaf paste and mix it well.



Enjoy this with hot hot idli, dosa...

If you mix it with plain rice, it becomes the kariveppalla rice..(another mixed rice)...

Mixed vegetable fried rice - A fusion

It's a fusion between mixed vegetable rice and fried rice..It is my own receipe so beware...LOL..I think it is a confusion, rather...throwed in all the items that i got in my hand and there we go once again...

Ingredients:
1. 1 chopped carrot
2. 2 chopped onions
3. few beans
4. ginger and garlic - small pieces
5. somphu, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, badam – few of each
6. turmeric powder – ½ tbsp
7. chilli powder – ½ tbsp
8. garam masala powder – 1 tbsp
9. cooking oil - 1 tbsp
10. soaked 1 cup of rice for ½ hour

Method of preparation:

In a heavy bottom kadai, heat 1-2 tbsp of cooking oil and splutter some somphu seeds. After that add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, badam and fry it till fragrant.
Add chopped ginger pieces and garlic pieces/ ginger garlic paste and sauté till the raw smell leaves.
Add all the chopped onions and fry it till it becomes brown color.
Add all the chopped veggies to it and sauté it.
Add chilli powder/gram masala powder and lotsa of curry leaves and turmeric powder and salt to taste and mix it well and allow it to cook for sometime.
Now add the soaked rice with 2 glass of water and mix the whole contents well and pressure cook it till 3 whistles.



Garnish it with coriander leaves (if available)…

It came out very well. It looked colorful and tasted yum...

Tomato rice

How to make tomato rice:

Ingredients:

1 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp mustard seeds
few urud dhal seeds
few kadala paruppu seeds
1/2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp chilli powder
1 tbsp garam masala powder
salt to taste
4-5 ripe tomatoes chopped
1-2 onions
coriander leaves
curry leaves
jeeram seeds

soaked rice - 2 cups (1/2 hour)


Method of preparation:

In a kadai, heat 1 tbsp of cooking oil and splutter some mustard seeds, add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves and sauté it till fragrant. Add the ginger garlic paste to this and sauté it till the raw smell leaves. Add chopped onions, curry leaves and salt to taste and let it get fried till light golden brown.
Add chopped tomatoes to this and let it cook till it becomes soggy and fragrant. Add 1 tbsp of chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and mix it well.
Garnish it with corriander leaves. Then add the 2 cup of soaked rice to this and 4 cup of water and mix it well and pressure cook it till 3 whistles.

Mixed vegetable rice

When i came back from office, i found that the rice which had been cooked for lunch remained untouched. I decided to make a quick vegetable rice. This is one way by which i can forcefully make my children eat all the veggie's...

I used microwave for this.

Here is how i made:

Ingredients
1. 2 chopped carrot
2. 2 chopped onions
3. few beans
4. 1 chopped potatoes
5. 1 chopped capisicum
6. ginger and garlic - small pieces
7. somphu, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves - little
8. cooking oil - 1 tbsp

Method of preparation:

1. Steam the already cooked rice with a pressure cooker/ outside to make it hot.

2. In a microwave safe bowl, pour some oil and put the onions, somphu, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves and cook it for 2 - 3 minutes. stir the contents in between.

3. Added the chopped vegetables, salt to taste, 1/2 tbsp of gram masala powder. Mix it well and cook for 6-7 minutes.

4. I transferred the whole content to a mudpot and also added the already warmed rice to it and mix the whole content and cook for another 5-6 minutes.


It came out very well. It looked colorful and tasted yum...



My daughter tasted and said "Emh...Delicious"..and my children finished the whole plate...Not bad....

Mango rice

How to make mango rice mix:

The mango story contines….
I grated the mangoes into small pieces and cooked it with little water, with 1 tbsp of salt, 1 tbsp of chilly powder and turmeric powder. When it is done, I seasoned it by heating 1 tbsp oil in a kadai, add 1 tbsp mustard seed, 1 tbsp of urudh seeds, 1 tbsp of kadala paruppu, some jeerakham, 1 - 2 red dry chillies, 1-2 green chillies, 1 handful of groundnut, and lots of curry leaves.

Mix the above prepared mix to the rice and serve it with pappad/pickle.

Lemon Rice - A Yellow Rice

Here is how I prepare Lemon Rice…..My son’s favorite , the yellow rice……

To make Lemon Rice :

Take 2 cup of already cooked rice. To it , add salt to taste and lemon juice of 2 lemon. Mix it thoroughly and keep it aside.

Chop 2 onions and slit 2 green chilies, 2-3 broken dry red chillies, some curry leaves for seasoning. Can also add some groundnut and pottu (chutney) kadalai.

Heat 1 tbsp oil in a kadai, splutter 1 tbsp mustard seed, 1 tbsp of urudh seed, 1 tbsp of kadala paruppu (Channa Dhal seeds). Sim the burner so that these seeds do not get charred. When the seeds change the color to light brown, add 2 onions chopped and saute it until they are slightly golden and soft. Add lots of curry leaves. Then add groundnut and pottu (chutney) kadalai and saute it till it is fried to golden brown.

Then add the rice to the above mix, and mix it well thoroughly (sim the burner).

Lemon Rice is ready!!!!!