It’s time to go all the way to South India and try their special delicacy, peanut rice. You can follow our recipe below, you certainly would not regret it.
Ingredients
Rice – 1 cup
Roasted peanuts – 1/2 cup
Turmeric – 1/8 tsp
Ghee/ sesame oil – 1 – 2 tblsp
Salt – As needed
Sesame seeds – 3/4 tsp
Red chilles – 3
Grated coconut/ koppara – 1/4 cup
To Temper
Oil – 1/2 tblsp
Mustard – 1 tsp
Urad dal – 1 tsp
Channa dal – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Method
1. Pressure cook rice and cool down to make the cooked grains separate by adding required salt and ghee/sesame oil. De skin the peanuts. Roast the sesame seeds,chilli and lastly add the coconut and fry until golden.
2. Powder the chilli first roughly and then add other roasted items and peanuts. Grind into a coarse powder.
3. Temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table and add turmeric to it.Add it to the rice and mix well.
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