Mango Rice | Mavinakayi Chitranna
Being in Bangalore throughout my childhood and college days, Karnataka is infamous for its various rice preparations i.e. tomato rice, lemon rice, ghee rice, pulao, mango rice, tamarind rice, curd rice these can be had either in the morning in the breakfast or for your lunch box. This similar trend can be seen in Andhra but the variations are limited to lemon, tamarind, mango and curd rice.
Mostly all these dishes originated to give a makeover for the left-over rice from the previous night. Even plain tadka/tempering/vagar to the plain rice, make’s its edible in the morning, as it gets reheated and flavourful to have it in the morning breakfast.
Mango Rice or Mavinakayi Chitranna is called as we replace lemon with mango in lemon rice version so its called as Mavinakayi Chitranna.
Mango Rice | Mavinakayi Chitranna
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ Cup Raw rice
- ¾ Cup Grated Raw Mango peeled
- ½ tsp Mustard
- ½ tsp Jeera
- 5 to 6 Curry Leaves washed and dried
- 1 tbsp Urad dal
- 1 tbsp Channa Dal
- Pinch of Hing
- 2 Dry Red Chillies
- 2 to 3 Green Chillies
- ½ tsp of Turmeric
- ¼ cup peanuts Fired
- 1 tbsp Cashew nuts
- 3 tbsp oil for cooking
- ¼ cup Fresh Coriander chooped
Instructions
How to make Mango Rice | Mavinakayi Chitrana…?
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Wash and prepare the rice and keep it aside to be cooled, we can prepare the rice in any manner but ensure the rice should be separate grain to grain and keep it aside.
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Peel the raw mango and grate it and keep it aside and Sauté the peanuts and keep it aside.
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Take deep Pan/Kadai and heat it and add the tempering items i.e. mustard, jeera, curry leaves, green chillies, urad dal, channa dal hing and salt allow them to splutter.
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Now add the turmeric and cook it for some time and add grated mango and fry till the rawness of the mango goes and also one more shrinks.
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Let the mixture cool down, then mix it with the cooked rice.
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Add the chopped coriander leaves and also additionally one can add grated fresh coconut.
Recipe Notes
Note: For the rice to be separate grain to grain, for that the cooling of the rice is very important, because when the rice is hot it tends to get clumpy. Fry the dal till it turns slightly brown, dal should fry otherwise they will stay raw.
Yum, this sounds like my kind of rice! I don’t think I’ve ever tried this kind of flavor before, but I’m sure I’d love it.
Thanks, sure do try it out i am sure you will like it, and please give your feedback.
Never had mango rice before and this really looks and sounds delicious. I need to start trying out new foods.
Thanks, Sure do try out and let us know the feedback..:-)
I guarantee I’d have a hard time finding these ingredients in small town KY but the recipe itself looks and sounds amazing!! Wonderful blog post with great pictures!
That’s sad to know..thanks for the comments.
We often have some rice to go with meals and I love the idea of mango rice, I think we might have to try this for next time, it sounds amazing!
Sure Thanks do try it out and do give me your feed back.
Come on, this seems so great, I need to try this out. Then I remember I am the worst cook on the planet.
Whoa! This looks delicious and totally doable! Thanks so much for sharing!
Welcome..:-)..!
Looks like a must try to me!
Those ingredients sound super professional!
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thanks for dropping by, sure please do try and let me know the outcome..:-)
That’s an awesome recipe. Would certainly try it out this mango season.
Thanks..!
LOVE LOVE this recipe. I would have never thought of adding this to a savory rice but after reading the ingredients I could totally imagine the flavors blending together
Try this recipe you would love the combination of spices and mango giving you a incredible taste.
This recipe looks incredible. I would love to try it out for dinner this week
PLEASE DO TRY IT AND LET US KNOW UR FEEDBACK.
Mangoes are my favorite. But haven’t tried the mango rice. thanks for the recipe.
Oh thank you for sharing this recipe, I have a dinner that I’m doing tomorrow, and I think this would be a wonderful side dish for it.
I am on the fence about this recipe. Although it looks good, I am not sure if my family would like the flavors. Guess the only way I will know is if we try it out! Thanks!
Mmmm I bet this tastes so fruity and like summer! Tasty indeed I think!
You know what?! My boyfriend is coming over this weekend and I now know what we’ll be eating! this looks delicious!
Bet he will the burst of flavors it will give, thanks do try it out !
Oh! We love Indian food but have never tried mango rice before. This looks so good, I bet it taste yummy! I might try to make this comes mango season.
Thanks do try and let me know..:-)
How interesting. I’ve never thought to add mango to my rice. I bet it’s pretty sweet.
Thanks, in this we use raw mango so it will tad sour, to beat that sourness we use chilli to bring in the heat. So all in all it will be balanced to give raw mango flavor. And the freshness from other spices used !
Ooh now this definitely blows regular rice out of the water for me. I can imagine that the mango lends much needed sweetness to the dish would be a wonderful contrast to spicy curry.
I really do love mangos and will eat them in anything. Luckily so will the kids so I need to make this for them soon. They’re picky eaters but if they know something they like is in a recipe, they’re more apt to try it.
Will have my wife read these post. Great share.
Oh wow! This Mango Rice Mavinakayi Chitranna sounds really yummy! I’m sure my mom would really like this one.
Love the mango flavor! And what a great combo with rice!