This
morning, tried my hand at a very humble recipe of Pudina (mint) rice with
simple ingredients available at home. It’s a perfect comfort food for
lunch/dinner and I loved its earthy flavor. Takes you less than 10 minutes to
prepare this!
Ingredients
·
I bunch of pudina leaves
·
Soaked tamarind – (very small lemon-sized
ball)
·
3 green chillies
·
Ginger – 25 gms
·
Cooked rice- 2 cups
·
Salt to taste
For
seasoning
·
Mustard, broken urad and gram dal
·
Sesame oil
·
Asafoetida- 1 tea spoon
·
Turmeric powder- 1 tea spoon
·
Curry leaves
For
garnishing
·
Roasted peanuts (de –skinned)
Get started
·
Grind the pudina leaves, chilly, ginger, tamarind
& salt into a fine paste
·
Heat oil in a pan, add the seasoning
ingredients and allow them to crackle
·
Add turmeric, asafoetida & curry leaves
and the ground paste
·
Keep stirring for about 3-5 minutes until the
moisture in the paste evaporates
·
Finally add the cooked rice and roasted
peanuts for crunchiness
As I was
finishing, it struck me that the same recipe with broken poha or dalia (instead
of rice) would be more nutritious and taste interesting too. Tamarind can also be
replaced with lemon juice (to be used after turning off the heat to avoid
bitterness). Got to try these alternatives the next time!
