Curd rice
(from Nandini’s recipe box)
Source: http://www.vegetarian-cooking-recipes-tips.com/curd-rice.html
Categories: Rice recipies
Ingredients
- Ingredients for curd rice
- Cooked rice - 2 cups
- Plain curd - 3/4 cup
- Milk - 1/2 cup
- Green chilies - 1 or 2
- Ginger paste - 1/4 teaspoon.
- Coriander leaves(Cilantro) - 1 tbsp chopped
- Curry leaves - 4-5
- Salt - 1/2 teaspoon or to taste
- Ingredients For Seasoning
- Oil - 1 tablespoon
- Bengal gram dal - 1/2 tea spoon
- Urad (black gram)dal - 1/2 tea spoon
- Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Asafoetida - a pinch
- Preparation
- chop/slit chilli
- chop coriander leaves
- Cool rice
Directions
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Cooking Method
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds. When they stop crackling add Bengal gram dal and urad dal. Fry for 5 seconds but do not let burn.
- Add asafetida, chopped chilies, curry leaves. Fry for 5 seconds.
- Take off the pan from the stove and let it cool a little.
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Final mixing:
- Mix cooked rice, curd, milk, salt, chopped coriander leaves.
- Add the seasoning. Mix well
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Curd-rice is ready. Serve it as a meal by itself or with lime pickle or mango pickle.
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Tips:
- Use fresh, naturally sweet curd – yogurt. You may also add some fresh cream to it to make it yummy, if your diet permits that.
- Mix Curd Rice just before serving. Once the curd-rice is mixed it should be eaten within half an hour or so or it can get sour, so if you are not planning to eat it immedietly, put it in the fridge. Rice also becomes thick after some time. So a little milk may be added again at the time of serving.
- If you are taking this rice dish for a picnic, you can do the following to get the fresh taste even though you will be eating it after a few hours.
- Mix all the ingredients except curd.
- You can add a little curd to the milk and carry it separately in a bottle.
- Just before serving, add this milk and curd mixture to the rice mix.
- It will taste wonderful. It is better to take more milk mixed with a spoonful of curd with you as it will set fully into curd within a couple of hours in hot weather. So by the time you are ready for your picnic lunch, the curd will be ready for you. It may take longer time in the cold weather so adjust the quantity of curd added to the milk accordingly.
- Some chopped onion, cucumber, chopped grapes, pomegranate seeds are also added to curd rice. You can add any one of these or all of these. It also prevents the curd-rice from becoming thick.