Peanut Rice

Ingredients

• • Grained rice (long) - 2 cups
• • Peanuts (roasted) - 1 ¼ cups
• • Sesame seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Red chillies - 10
• • Coconut (grated, dry) - ¼ cup
• • Turmeric powder - ½ teaspoon
• • Salt - as required
• • Oil - 2 tablespoons

Ingredients For Seasoning

• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Black gram dal - ¾ teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - ½ teaspoon
• • Curry leaves - few

Method

• 1. Cook rice till it is half cooked consistency.
• 2. Allow it to cool.
• 3. Separate the grains.
• 4. Remove outer red skin from roasted peanuts and pound it coarsely.
• 5. Heat a Teaspoon of oil and fry red chillies and dry coconut till light brown.
• 6. Powder separately.
• 7. Dry roast sesame seeds till light brown and powder separately.
• 8. Heat oil and fry the seasonings till golden brown.
• 9. Add turmeric powder and pour over rice with salt and other powdered ingredients.
• 10. Mix well and serve.