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Thursday, 3 December 2015

Capsicum Rice

This is one of my favorite recipe. You can make the same as carrot rice/Egg plant rice instead of capsicum. I have tried my best to give step by step cooking procedure.

INGREDIENTS:

Rice - 1/2 cup
Capsicum- 2 nos(medium size)
Onion - 1/2
Salt-  As required
Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon

TO GRIND:
Peanuts - 3 tablespoon
Coriander seeds - 2 tea spoon
Bengal gram(Channa daal) - 1 tablespoon
Urad daal - 1 tablespoon
Dry red chilli- 3 or 4
Cumin seeds - 2 tea spoon


METHOD:
Cook rice in a pressure cooker and allow it to cool. In a pan, dry roast peanuts and set aside. In the same pan, add 2 teaspoon oil, then roast coriander seeds,bengal gram, urad daal,cumin and dry red chillis till they turn to golden brown color.


Now powder them finely.

   


In a pan add 3 teaspoon of oil, then add onion and fry for 2 minutes. Then add capsicum, turmeric powder and salt and stir well. If you want more spicy, you can add 1/2 teaspoon of red chilli powder. Please dont add water to cook  capsicum . Water will make the rice to turn lumps. Just sprinkle little water and stir well, until the capsicum get cooked well. stir continuously, and dont let the capsicum to get burnt.

Once, the capsicum cooked well and soft, add the peanut powder, which you have prepared..Now , reduce the flame to very well and mix the powder well with capsicum and switch off the flame.If the flame is high, the powder would get burnt. 

Now add the cooked rice and mix well, using a rice cooker spoon .

COOKING TIP:
1. When you cook rice in pressure cooker, add 3 to 4 drops of oil, so that rice dont get sticked to each other. The rice should not be over cooked and should not be too soft.  I used basmati rice. For 1/2 cup rice  , I added 1 cup of water and few drops of oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt( Remaining salt , you can adjust , when you fry capsicum and onion). Keep flame in high for 1 whistle. Then keep it in full sim for 9 minutes and then switch off the flame. Once cooked, transfer the rice to another vessel and keep it open, so that it gets cools down.

2. The rice will be easier to mix, only when it has cool down.




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