Pudeena Rice

Ingredients:

• Cashew nuts 10 to 20,
  
• 1 to 2 spoon garlic & ginger paste,
  
• 2 glass of rice,
  
• One bunch of pudeena,
  
• 2 or 3 green chilly
  
• Sugar & salt
  

Preparation method:

1. Fry cashew nuts in oil
2. Add garlic & ginger paste
3. Pour in chopped green chillies and then pudeena
4. Fry everything and add salt and sugar according to your taste.
5. Add this mixture to the rice.

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Vegetable Pulav

Ingredients:

• Vegetables- beans, carrot, capsicum, cabbage, onion, cauli flower
  
• Cashew nuts 10 to 20
  
• Garlic & ginger paste
  
• Rice
  
• Lemon, Pepper
  
• Sugar & salt
  
• Garam masala
  

Preparation method:
Fry the chopped beans, carrot, capsicum, cabbage, onion, cauliflower.
Add suitable amount of sugar and salt.
Fry cashew nut in oil.
Add garlic and ginger paste,garam masala, little bit lemon, pepper.
Add the fried vegetable mix and fry again for some time.
Add rice according to the quantity of spice.

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Brinjal Rice

Ingredients:Oil
Brinjals
Asofoetida4 to 5 cloves
2 spoon coriander
7 and 8 dry chilly
2 glass rice
½ tea spoon turmeric
Tamarind little quantity
Curry leaves
1 spoon mustered
Salt and sugar
1 spoon mathi
Preparation method:Initially, fry the asafetida, mathi, cloves, coriander, dry chilly, turmeric in little bit oil . If you want garlic you can add it also. Then grind it with some tarmorind. In the next step, pour some oil and put one spoon of mustered and curry leaves, then fry brinjal with that. After some time, pour prepared spicy with that and again fry it for some time. After that, add sugar and salt according to your taste. At the last, you can add 2 glass of rice with that.

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Jeera Rice

Ingredients:

• Onion 4 to 5
  
• Pepper ¼ table spoon
  
• Coriander ½ table spoon
  
• jeera ½ table spoon
  
• Ghee 4 tea spoon
  
• Oil 1 table spoon
  
• 2 glass rice
  
• Salt and sugar
  

Preparation method-
First of all, make powder of pepper, jeera (½ table spoon) and coriander and mix them. Pour oil into a dish and fry one spoon of jeera. Then fry chopped onion add the mixture of pepper-jeera-coriander. Fry some more time, then add little ghee, sugar and salt to your taste. Add this masala to cooked rice and mix well. Serve with raitha or tomato ketchup.

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Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice or 'Chitranna' is a common in Southern parts of Karnataka and many parts of South India. It's an item, what you can call a poor man's dish. The ingredients and steps are almost the same as in Avalakki... the only difference is soaked cooked rice replaces soaked Avalakki.

Prepare vaggarni as explained in Avalakki post and mix it to the rice. However, the rice needs to be cooked well in advance so that it's cool and the grains are separate.

You can add peanuts into the vaggarni or add thin mango or carrot shreds as a topping to give chitranna a different flavor.

Chitranna can be had for break-fast, lunch or dinner or even evening snack. It's light on the tummy. Try it out once.

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