CARROT RICE
Just to Share with you…….
During my school days my mom used to make diferent types of variety rices to pack our tiffen boxes. One among is Carrot rice. It won’t become dry in the afternoon when you open your lunchbox. It is fresh always. Since carrot is very good for health we have to make our kids take carrot in one or the otherway. If they eats fresh carrots it very good.
Also sometimes making items just to finish the contents of the fridge is somewhat difficult, especially when my mind is focused on other things like getting clothes sorted for the trip home, making sure I have lists of what to take (and more importantly, what to bring back with me!) and so on.Anyway, with just over a kilo of carrots to finish in the next couple of days, carrot rice inevitably found itself on the menu.
It’s very simple to make carrot rice (apart from the carrots, haha) are a couple of onions and a tomato – items that usually are at hand in most kitchens
carrot rice
Ingredients
- Grated carrot - 1 cup ( can add more aslo)
- Basmati rice – 1cup
- Cinnamon – 2 small pieces
- Cardamom – 1
- Cloves – 3
- bay leaf- 1
- Cilantro – little for garnish
- Onion – 1
- Tomato -1
- Oil - 2 tbsp
- Chillies – 3
- Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder – a pinch
- curry leaves – little
- Salt to taste
Preparation
- Cook rice with little salt and allow it to cool. All the grains should be seperate. So for 1 cup rice add 1 to 1 1/4 cup water
- In a pan pour oil ,add cinnamon,cardamom,cloves ,bayleaf and let them splutter. Then add curry leaves.
- Add chopped onions,chillies,chopped tomato and fry well.
- Add the grated carrot ,turmeric powder,red chillipowder and salt . Fry for 5 -7 mts.
- Then add the cooked rice to the pan and mix well and garnish with cilantro.
Tips
Above is the basic version of carrot rice.To add richness to your food do the following.
- Add llittle peas (frozen) along with grated carrot .Different colors make the food looks good.
- If you don’t have frozen peas soak the peas overnight (or for 8 hrs) then cook is first and then add.
- You can fry cashews in ghee and you can sprinkle on the top.
