Capsicum Rice - Pure Vegetarian
Spicy Capsicum rice is a variant from the usually available ones. The dish is tasty and very easy to prepare.
Ingredients
- 200 gm Rice
- 3 ½ Bengal gram Kadalaparippu
- 2 ½ Black gram Uzhunnuparippu
- 5 nos Capsicum
- 1 cup Other Veggies like carrot, beans etc optional
- 8 nos Cashewnuts
- 1" stick Cinnamon Karugapatta
- 2 tbsp Coriander seeds
- ½ tbsp Cuminseeds Jeerakam
- 3 nos Curry leaves
- ½ tbsp Grated coconut
- 1 no Lemon
- ½ tbsp Mustard seeds
- 3 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Peanuts Nelakadala
- 8 Whole red chillies Kollamulaku
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
Instructions
- Fry the red chillies, cinnamon, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and black gram dal in a teaspoon of ghee or oil till golden brown. Powder and keep aside.
- Cook rice until 3/4 cooked. Drain the water from the rice, spread and cool. Mix a teaspoon of oil or ghee to it and keep aside.
- Heat oil and add mustard seeds, Bengal gram, red chillies, curry leaves, cashew nuts, and peanuts one by one and fry till golden brown in colour.
- Add veggies n saute followed by diced capsicum and fry till soft.
- Reduce heat and add grated dry coconut. Fry until light brown.
- Add turmeric powder, salt and the cooked rice. Fry for a few minutes until the rice is hot.
- Squeeze lemon juice and powdered masala. Mix well.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
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