Recipe: Tasty Curd rice

Curd rice. Curd rice recipe with video & step by step photos. Curd rice is a south Indian dish made with precooked rice, curd (yogurt) & tempering spices. It is more often eaten by south Indians as a part of a meal.

Curd rice is quintessential comfort food! Although the word "curd" in India often refers to unsweetened yogurt, this dish of South Indian origin is actually cooked rice which is seasoned and then combined with yogurt. This recipe calls for sour yogurt--most plain yogurt has a sour enough taste, but you can make your own sour yogurt by adding lemon juice to plain yogurt. You can have Curd rice using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Curd rice

1. It's 1 cup of cooked rice.
2. Prepare 1 cup of thick curd.
3. Prepare As per taste of Salt.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of sugar.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of ginger chilli paste.
6. Prepare 5-6 of curry leaves.
7. It's 1 tsp of chopped coriander leaves.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of punch phoran / five spices.
9. It's 1 tsp of mustard oil.
10. It's 2 of dry red chilli.

Curd rice recipe with step by step photos and video. Curd rice is a popular and tasty South Indian dish that is served with a South Indian thali or meal. Curd rice is nothing but curd (yogurt) mixed with cooked rice, herbs and then tempered. Curd rice is also known as thayir sadam or daddojanam or bagala bath in some South Indian languages.

Curd rice instructions

1. Beat the curd well and mix the salt, sugar and ginger chilli paste in it..
2. Then mix the cooked rice in it and chopped coriander leaves in it..
3. Heat a tadka pan and put oil in it and then add the punch phoran/ five spices in it..
4. When the mustard in the punch phoran crackle then add the curry leaves and dry red chilli in it. stir for 1/2 mins, then switch off the flame.
5. Mix it with the curd rice mixture..
6. Now the curd rice is ready to serve..

This yummy rice, seasoned with fresh ginger and garlic, curry leaves, and cinnamon, is an excellent way to use up leftover cooked white rice. It tastes awesome hot or cold, especially hot on cold winter nights. Best of all, it takes all of ten minutes to make. Simple Curd Rice can be prepared with steamed rice and plain curd or with additional tempering of urad dal, mustard seeds, chillies, coriander leaves and steamed rice. This recipe uses the second method to make it tastier.