CARROT RICE

Ingredients:

   

2 cup rice

2 onion

5 carrot

2 tsp fried groundnuts

2 tsp oil

a small piece of cinnamon

1 tsp broken block gram

2 nos cloves

1 tsp mustard

1 tsp bengal gram

a few sprigs curry leaves

Salt as per taste

For Masala:

1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds

3/4 tsp cumin seeds

2 tsp grated coconut

4 nos red chillies

How to make carrot rice:

    * Heat the pan, pour the 1 tsp oil. Add red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and fry till it turns brown.
    * Add grated coconuts and remove from the heat. Grind it after it cools down.
    * Grind seperately, the fried groundnuts coarsely.
    * Cook the rice and let it cool.
    * Put the carrots in warm water. Grate it without peeling the skin.
    * Heat oil in a pan. Add cloves, cinnamon, mustard, broken block gram and Bengal gram. Fry them.
    * Add curry leaves and chopped onions. Once the onion is cooked, add the grated carrots. Fry till the carrots are cooked.
    * Add rice and fry in a low flame. Add salt and the ground masala powder. Mix it well with the rice.
    * Finally add groundnut powder and remove from the flame. Serve hot.