Coriander seeds rice|Dhaniya Podi saadham
Dhaniya podi rice or coriander seeds rice, a mixed rice recipe, made with coriander seeds spice powder and rice. It is an easy to make lunch box recipe.
Servings 2
Calories
Ingredients
- 2 cup Cooked rice
- 1.5 teaspoon salt or to taste
For the spice powder
- 1.5 tablespoon coriander seeds dhaniya vathal
- 2 nos red chilies i use round variety
- 2 teaspoon urad dal black gram
- 1-2 cloves garlic i used only one
- a small marble of tamarind
Tempering
- 2 teaspoon sesame oil
- ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds
- ½ teaspoon chana dal
- 2 tablespoon peanuts optional (see notes)
- 2 nos red chilies long chilies
- a sprig of curry leaf
Instructions
- In a pan, add a drop of oil and roast the coriander seeds and urad dal. When they turn golden brown, switch off the stovea nd add the red chilies, garlic and tamarind, they will get roasted in the residue heat. Let this cool down completely
- Once the spices are cool enough, take them into a mixer and grind it to a not so fine powder.
Let us make the rice
- In the same pan we roasted the spices, add the oil given under 'tempering', splutter mustard seeds, then add the red chilies, curry leaves, chana dal and peanuts. Roast them until the dal turnsgolden brown. Switch off the stove
- To this hot tadka, add the rice and mix well.Now add the spice powder in batches and mix the rice.
- The amount said above will make 2 cups of mixed rice, i have used around 1.5 cups of rice, i like the powder a bit strong in my rice, you can either use 1.5 cups or 2 cups according to your taste levels
- Add salt to the rice and mix well, please note i haven't added salt to the spice powder, so add enough salt to the rice. Mix well and serve or pack for lunch.
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Notes
- You can replace the peanuts in tempering with any other nuts. If allergic to nuts, omit them completely.
- The above measurements will be enough to mix with 2 cups of cooked rice. Do not add more as you might not feel the taste of the spice powder.