Tuesday 14 May 2013

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.








15 comments:

  1. Looks inviting.. good way to consume more curry leaves

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  2. Thanks for trying the recipe! am glad you liked it

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  3. Must've been very fragrant and flavorful..nice one Ruchi

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  4. Very flavourful and aromatic rice dish. A must try recipe.

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  5. I bet this is delicious!

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