Monday, May 3, 2010

Garlic rice- A Flavored rice




Some easy, last minute cooking recipes are always good to be in stock, if you and your close mates are really hungry and have just a rice cooked with you. Why do you rush up to prepare all the curry and stuffs? Hurry-burry spoils the curry!! Just check if you have 2, 3 cloves of garlic and half an onion. DONE. Delicious and heart-winning garlic flavored rice is in your stomach in 5min.


And yeah i remember my grandma saying that this rice is good during period cramps. 


Requisites:-


Cooked rice- any rice per person
Oil-1tblspn or ghee
Mustard seeds-1/4tspn
Fenugreek seeds-3 seeds
Dry whole red chillies-2 crushed. Else, green chillies
Red gram/ Thuvaraparippu-1/2tspn
Black gram/Uzhunnu parippu-1/2 tspn
Garlic-2 cloves sliced or chopped
Onion chopped-half or spring onions-2
Curry leaves-3 leaves
Asafoetida-3 pinches
Turmeric-1/4tspn to give a slight yellow color to your rice.
Coriander leaves for garnishing



Direction:-
  • Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds. Set the heat at medium through out
  • Add the black gram, red gram , fenugreek seeds, GARLIC and red chillies. Then let them turn slightly golden brown.
  • Now add the onion, asafoetida, and curry leaves. Add turmeric too
  • Saute for 2min, and add rice. Just mix all well.
  • DONE.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves.
BON APPETITE:)

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