Ingredients:
1½ cups Rice
1 teaspoon Split Black Gram (Urad Dal)
1½ teaspoons Bengal Gram (Chana Dal)
1/2 tablespoon Garlic, grated
1 tablespoon Vegetable oil
1-2 dried Red Chillies, broken
1-2 Green Chillies, slit
1 large sprig Curry Leaves (Kadi Patta)
3/4 teaspoon Mustard Seeds (Sarson Ke Beej)
2-4 tablespoons Peanuts or Cashew tatnuts (Kaju)
1/8 – 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
Lemon Juice as per taste
Pinch of Asafoetida (Hing)
Salt to taste
Preparation:
Rinse properly and soak rice in water for 15 minutes.
Next, add rice to the pressure cooker and let it cook over a medium flame, for 2-3 whistles. Let the pressure settle and then remove the lid.
Once the rice cools down, sprinkle salt, lemon juice and 1 tablespoon oil evenly. Mix everything well.
Heat a pan with oil over a medium to low flame. Once it is hot, toss in peanuts/cashews and half roast them.
Post that, add chana dal and urad dal. Cook till this turns golden .
Next add in mustard seeds and let it splutter. Then add ginger, green chilli, red chillies, garlic, curry leaves and notice till the leaves turn crisp.
Finally, add hing and turmeric powder (do not burn ginger while cooking). Mix everything with cooled rice and it's ready.
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