Curd Rice.
You can have Curd Rice using 13 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Curd Rice
- Prepare 1/2 cup of regular rice.
- Prepare 1.5 cups of water for pressure cooking.
- It's 1 cup of fresh curd Or 250 grams curd (yogurt or dahi).
- It's 1/4 cup of milk OR 62.5 ml milk.
- Prepare 1 of green chilli chopped (hari mirch).
- Prepare 4-5 of curry leaves, chopped (kadi patta).
- It's 1 tablespoon of chopped coriander leaves (dhania patta).
- You need 1 of shimla mirchi chopped.
- You need 1/2 of carrot chopped.
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds (rai).
- You need 1/2 teaspoon of urad dal (husked and split black gram dal) - optional.
- It's 5-6 of curry leaves - chopped or kept whole.
- It's 1/8 teaspoon of asafoetida (hing).
Curd Rice instructions
- Rinse ½ cup rice a couple of times in water. then add the rice in a 2-litre pressure cooker..
- Add water. stir very well. pressure cook rice for 5 to 6 whistles or 8 to 9 minutes till the rice is cooked and softened very well..
- When the pressure settles down on it's own, remove the lid and check the doneness of rice. the rice has to be more softer than what we cook on a daily basis..
- With a spoon or masher, mash the rice. close the cooker and allow the rice to become lukewarm or come at room temperature..
- Take pan add some oil after oil get heating add Carrot and capsicum and some salt. Saute for 5 minutes..
- When the rice becomes lukewarm or comes at room temperature, add fresh curd and milk..
- Mix again very well and break lumps if any. you can either use the spoon or masher while breaking the lumps..
- Add curry leaves, chopped green chilies and chopped coriander leaves. Add capsicum and carrot fry. (instead of adding ginger and curry leaves to the rice, you can also fry them in the tempering) add salt and mix very well. keep aside..
- Heat a small pan or tadka pan and add sesame oil in it. you can use peanut oil or sunflower oil instead of sesame oil..
- When the oil becomes hot, lower the flame. add mustard seeds. let the mustard seeds crackle. then add urad dal. urad dal is optional and can be skipped..
- Fry on a low flame stirring often till the urad dal becomes golden. lastly add the add curry leaves and asafoetida. mix very well..
- Switch off the flame and immediately pour the tempering in the curd rice mixture. again mix very well..
- Serve south indian curd rice topped with a few coriander leaves or pomegranate arils or grapes. you can skip the fruits too and just serve curd rice plain. you can also serve with fried sun dried green chillies or south indian mango pickle.
