After a hectic day at office last evening, i was driving my car back home furiously. My Fury - partly because of the senseless traffic of Hyderabad, partly because of the lunatics who keep honking in signals even when the signal is RED. I was damn hungry and was thinking of a hot and delicious dinner at home. I was driving recklessly and restlessly and couldn't wait to get home. After parking, slamming the door, beeping my autocop, rushed into my home to find my fridge empty. Not even a bottle of ice water. It always happens when we are desparate to find something isn't?:-) All i could find were some dried curry leaves in one corner of the fridge and some crated coconut ( God know when the coconut made to its earth). Frustrated, i slammed the fridge, threw my bag, my shoes and went to the changing room. While i was about to leave the changing room, i found a small torn book, hidden beneath my bean bag. The rest of the blog is a product of some innovative thinking by someone and some smart and quick cooking by MEEEEE!!:-) Yes it was a cook book and it had few recipes on how to prepare something real quick. And guess what, one of the first few recipes was on how to prepare "Curry Leaf rice". I had one of the best variery rice yesterday and I hope you'll enjoy too. So sit back, relax and enjoy this nice little recipe on Curry Leaf rice for all you bachelors, people who are travelling, people like me who come home and find nothing but curry leaves in the fridge.
So here it goes.....I'll try and make is as short and simple as possible.
Take a tawa and fry a cup full of curry leaves for 5 mins and keep it aside.
In the same tawa, pour a table spoon of cooking oil. Add some mustard, cumin seeds, urad dal, 6 dried red chilles, a cup of grated coconut, a spoon of black pepper and fry them for about 5 mins.
Cool it for sometime and then grind the mixture along with the fried curry leaves and prepare a spicy flavoured powder.
Boil rice separately and mix the powder. Voila!!! Tasty, delicious Curry leaf rice. Light and healthy:-). Add salt to your taste. Add little ghee, if you find it dry.
Try this out at home and let me know your comments.
I think this photo comes reasonably close to how curry leaf rice looked when I prepared :-)
