Curry Leaves and Jeera Pulav

We had thunder showers and heavy rains for a couple of days giving a chilling effect to the summer here. Oh it was very soothing... Now I have a small garden at my home and after this showers most of the plants started growing like crazy... Curry leaves in particular. Now I have a big bunch of curry leaves to be exhausted...



The other day while browsing through arusuvai-kurippu, I found a recipe for pulav using curry leaves. There was no second thinking... I immediately tried it and the dish tasted wonderful... This is a very healthy recipe... I just made 1 or 2 changes to the original recipe like used ghee instead of oil and so on..

Ingredients:
Rice - 1 cup
Onions - 1
Curry leaves - 1/2 cup
urad dal - 1 tbsp
pepper - 1/2 tbsp
Jeera/Cumin - 1 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Garlic - 2 pods
Ghee - 2 tsp
salt - to taste



Method:

• Pressure cook rice with salt and enough water.
• Finely chop the onions and garlic.
• In a non stick pan, dry roast the urad dal until the urad dal turns slight pink in colour.
• Add pepper and curry leaves. Switch off the stove.
• Saute for about 5 minutes until the curry leaves shrink and turn slightly crisp.
• Cool and powder the roasted ingredients.
• Heat Ghee in a pan. Add cumin and fennel seeds. Let it sizzle.
• Add chopped onions and garlic. Fry until onions turn translucent.
• Add the curry leaves powder. Add little salt. Mix well. 
• Switch off stove. Add the cooked rice and mix well.

Curry leaves and Jeera Pulav is ready!!! I served this with raita, pickle and papad.