Name: Peanut Rice Recipe recipe by Sailaja Angara at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Cup Rice; Salt to Taste; 1 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder; 1 Tablespoon Peanuts/Groundnuts; 1/4 Tablespoon Sesame Seeds; 1/4 Tablespoon Dry Coconut; 5 to 7 Red Chillies; 1 Tablespoon Oil; 1 Teaspoon Mustard Seeds; 1 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds; 1 Teaspoon Black gram; 1 Teaspoon Bengal Gram; 2 Red Chillies; 5 to 7 Curry Leaves; 2 to 4 Green Chillies; 1/4 Teaspoon Asafoetida

Ingredients Serving: 4

1 Cup Rice
Salt to Taste
1 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
1 Tablespoon Peanuts/Groundnuts
1/4 Tablespoon Sesame Seeds
1/4 Tablespoon Dry Coconut
5 to 7 Red Chillies
1 Tablespoon Oil
1 Teaspoon Mustard Seeds
1 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds
1 Teaspoon Black gram
1 Teaspoon Bengal Gram
2 Red Chillies
5 to 7 Curry Leaves
2 to 4 Green Chillies
1/4 Teaspoon Asafoetida

Instructions

Pressure cook rice for three whistles, in 1:2 ratio for 1 cup rice add 2 cups of water.
Slit green chillies.
Let the pressure cools down, spread the rice in a wide plate. Add oil so that the rice won't be sticky.
Heat a kadai, add peanuts and roast till they turn light brown or the aroma comes. Keep it aside.
In the same roast sesame seeds, red chillies and dry coconut till the sesame seeds flutter.
Combine them with the above roasted peanuts.
Let them cool for a while and grind to a coarse powder.
Heat oil in the same kadai, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, black gram and bengal gram.
When they start crackling, add red chillies and slit green chillies, curry leaves. Fry them for a while.
Add cooked rice to it, give a nice mix.
Add salt and above made peanut powder to it. Combine well so that the entire powder and salt mixes with the rice grains.
Serve peanut rice with curd.

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