Pepper Rice

Ingredients

• • Rice - 1 cup
• • Curry leaves - 3 tablespoons
• • Pepper - 1 teaspoon
• • Garlic - 10
• • Pure ghee - 2 tablespoons
• • Salt - as required

Method

• 1. Cook rice and allow it to cool.
• 2. Heat a Teaspoon of ghee and fry curry leaves till crisp.
• 3. Cool and crush well with hands.
• 4. Peel garlic and slice into thin pieces.
• 5. Dry black pepper under sun and then powder.
• 6. Heat rest of the ghee and fry garlic till golden brown in colour.
• 7. Add pepper powder and fry for a minute.
• 8. Mix in rice, salt and crumbled curry leaves.

Variation

• • Dry roast one Tablespoon full of cashew nuts and powder separately.
• • Fry two red chillies in oil and powder along with pepper.
• • Reduce pepper to ¾ Teaspoon Mix everything together with salt to cooked rice.