Spicy Curry Leaves Rice
Curry leaves powder is mixture of various spices, which includes curry leaves. Curry leaves are predominantly used in India and Sri Lanka for cooking and a native tree to both the countries.
It’s not only versatile leaves for cooking but also has astounding health benefits, they are a rich source of iron and folic acid, they help in control blood sugar and also help in reducing/stopping diarrhea and stimulate hair growth, we can go on listing the health benefits one can have eating curry leaves.
Curry leaves are also called as Kaddi patta (In Hindi), Karuveppilai (In Tamil), its next to tulsi leaves in natural healing or health benefits. Its used for tempering majorly south Indian dishes and also used in spice powders.
Had seen my mother preparing this powder to be stored in kitchen for emergency purposes. This is very good for lunch boxes and afternoon lunch. It can be had with any crunchy chips or raita or coconut chutney.
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Spicy Curry Leaves Rice
Nutritional Value: 431 Calories / Serving Fat 138 cal Carbs 253 cal Protein 40 cal
Ingredients
- 1 ½ Cups Rice
- ¼ Cup Peanuts
To roast and powder
- 1 ½ Cups Curry leaves
- 2 Tbsp Channa dal
- 2 Tbsp Urad Dal
- ¼ Cup Grated Dry Coconut
- 2 Tsp Jeera - 2 tsp
- 2 Tsp Pepper
- 2 Tbsp Dhaniya
- 7 nos Dry Red chilli Badigye
- 2 tsp Oil
To temper
- 2 Tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard
- 2 tsp Urad dal
- 1 nos Green chilli
Instructions
How to Make Spicy Curry Leaves Rice?
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Make rice and fork it after draining the extra water, keep it aside and let it cool. Roast the peanuts and keep it aside.
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Take a deep pan and roast all the listed items in “To Roast” in tsp oil, put the curry leaves at the last as they do not require much time to get sautéed and grind them to a slightly coarse powder.
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Temper the rice with the items given under “To Temper” mix it to the rice and spicy curry leaves powder to the tempered rice. Mix it thoroughly
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It can be enjoyed along with papad, coconut chutney, raita and chips.
Recipe Notes
Put 1 tsp lemon juice or oil while cooking rice to get separate rice flakes. Add salt while cooking rice so that it will balance if for any shortage of salt in the rice. Use fresh curry leaves for better results and taste. Clean and dry the curry leaves before using.
Yummm I can already imagine how good it tastes! I love curry and rice so this is a win win!
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I wouldn’t mind giving it a try. I do like spicy every now and again.
The curry leaves impart a unique flavour to this dish. It is such a staple dish from the southern India.
Will definitely try this different from what I make at home usually.
I love rice recipes. This is a very unique recipe of rice. Thanks for sharing !
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i love rice and i will definitely try this recipe. simple and unique. Thanks dear for sharing your recipe with us. i usually order my food from Zomato .
Thanks for visiting the blog, please do try it out lets know the outcome will look forward to hear from you.
Thanks again.
This curry leaves rice recipe is looking so delicious. I am going to try this. Thanks for sharing this post.
Thanks for visiting and do post back how was ur experience of making the recipe..!
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