Garlic Rice

Ingredients Needed

Rice (basmati or regular white rice)- 1 cup
Garlic – 12 cloves (50 grams)
Pearl onions/ shallots- 8-10
Ginger -1/2 inch piece
Curry leaves -few
Tamarind – a small pea sized ball or 1/2 tsp flat tamarind paste

Urad dal – 1 tbsp
Bengal gram/channa dal -1 tsp
Red chillies -4-5
Hing/ asafoetida – a pinch
Sesame seed oil – 2 tbsp
Salt as neeeded

For the seasoning

Oil – 1 tsp
Mustard seeds -1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – few

Preparation

Soak basmati rice for 20 minutes. Drain the water completely and cook rice in 2 cups of water. See to it that each grain is separate. Spread it on a plate to cool.
Peel garlic and onion. Check out how to peel garlic easily
Method

Heat oil in a pan, add urad dal, channa dal and saute until it turns golden brown. Remove from pan. In the same pan, saute red chillies for a few seconds and remove it.
In the same pan, saute onion and garlic until onion turns translucent. Add ginger, curry leaves, hing, tamarind, salt needed and saute for a few more minutes. Leave it to cool.
Grind dal along with red chillies first to a smooth paste. Then add the onion garlic mixture and grind it slightly coarse.
Heat oil in a pan/kadai, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add curry leaves, cooked rice, ground paste and mix it well gently. Remove from heat.
Delicious and healthy Garlic rice is ready. Serve it with papads, chips or potato fry.

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