Curd Rice or Perugu annam

This is a recipe for Curd rice or yogurt rice. Very flavorful and mouth watering dish. Kids love this recipe. You can add dry fruits or pomagrante seeds or grated carrot to this recipe which makes this even more tasty and colourful. It can be prepared with left over rice also. This is a easy bachelor recipe.

The pictures are posted step by step.

Ingredients:

Cooked white rice- 1 cup

Oil- 1tbsp

Hing- pinch

Mustard seeds and jeera- 1tsp each

Urad dal and channa dal- 1tbsp each

Curry leaves- few

Whole pepper corns- 10 no

Red chillies- 3 to 4 no

Salt- to taste

Yogurt or curd- 1 cup or as required

Cashew nuts- broken 1 tbsp

Grated carrot- 1 tbsp (Optional).

Coriander leaves- 1tbsp chopped

Pepper powder- 1/2 tsp (optional)

Ground nuts- 1 tbsp (optional)

Preparations:

1. Wash and soak the rice about 15mts and cook the rice by adding 2 cups of water to 1 cup of rice. Cool it.

Method:

1. In a pan, heat oil, add hing, mustard seeds when they crackle, add jeera, curry leaves and fry.

2. Add urad dal, channa dal, ground nuts, red chillies, whole pepper corns and fry till the dal's change to golden colour.

3. In a bowl, take cooked rice, add yogurt, pepper powder and salt and mix everything well. Let them cool to room temperature.

4. At this point of time, you can also add grated carrot or pomogrante seeds or fried cashews to this rice, mix well.

5. Now add cooled tempering to curd rice, mix well and check the seasoning.

garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve with pickle or as it is.

Tip: This goes well with lemon pickle or ginger pickle.

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