It is an easy to prepare, healthy and delicious food with rice and lentil as major ingredients. We can have and enjoy this food with chutney, thuvaiyal, pickle, thokku, curd etc.
Ingredients:
- Rice: 2 cups
- Green gram (Paasip paruppu / Moong dal): 1 cup
- Mustard (Katuku / Rai): 1 tsp
- Curry leaves (Kariveppilai / Karipaththa): A few
- Green chili: 3
- Onion: 1
- Tomato: 1
- Garlic: A few
- Coriander leaves (Kothumalli thazhai / Dhania paththa): As required
- Cooking oil / Edible oil: As required
- Turmeric powder: A little
- Ghee / Clarified butter: As required
- Salt: As required
Method of preparation:
- Take a cooker and heat oil in it.
- Add muster, curry leaves, chopped green chili, garlic, onion and tomato one after the other and sauté for about two minutes.
- Add six cups of water and boil the contents.
- Add salt and turmeric powder.
- Add rice and green gram.
- Pressure cook for three whistles.
- Add a little ghee and decorate with coriander leaves.
- Take 1 cup of water in a pressure cooker.
- Add ½ cup of slightly fried split green gram.
- Boil under low flame.
- While boiling, add ½ cup each of grated jaggery and grated coconut.
- Fry qty 6 each cashew nuts and raisins in 2 table spoons of ghee.
- Add this also to the boiling content along with some cardamom powder and 1 cup of milk.
- Boil further for 5 minutes.
Glossary
English --------------------- Tamil -------------- Hindi
Green gram (split) - Paasipparuppu / Payattham paruppu - Mung dal
Jaggery ------------------ Vellam -------- Gud
Coconut ----------------- Tengai --------- Nariyal
Cashew nut -------------- Mundhiri paruppu ------ Kaju - Raisin ------------------ Ular Drakshai ----- Kismis
Cardamom ------------------- Elakkai --------- Elaichi
Milk -------------------- Pal / Paal --------- Dhoodh
Ghee -------------------- Nei ------------ Desi Ghee
