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Peanut Rice

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Today is another session of blog hop Wednesday of  Tickling Palates of Radhika and this month I am paired up with Nirmala of Nirmala's Kitchen . Her blog has a collection of South Indian recipes and innovative snacks,I chose Peanut rice from blog which is a healthy and quicker version.As I always prefer to cook and eat one pot meal or variety rice rather than sambhar,rasam or kulambhu,tried this one. It is a easy to make delicious variety rice which is a good option for lunch box too.Now on to the recipe.....   Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Cooked rice 11/2cup Peanut/Verkaladalai 1/4cup Dessicated coconut 2tbs Red chilly/varamilagai 3nos. Urad dhal/uluutham paruppu 2tsp Oil 3tsp Salt a pinch For the tempering Ingredient Quantity Mustard seeds/kadugu 1/2tsp Urad dhal/uluutham paruppu 1tsp Channa dhal/kadalai paruppu 1tsp Cashews/mundiri(chopped) 2tsp(optional) Curry leaves 1sprig Asafoetida/perungayam a pinch Method  Dry roas...

Whole Mung Beans and Mixed Vegetable Pulao

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From this month I joined in blog hop Wednesday of Radhika of  Tickling Palates and I am paired up with Kaveri of Palakkad Chamayal . In Kaveri's blog I found so many traditional Kerela recipes which are quiet interesting and new to me.But I am so much inspired with the whole mung beans and mixed veggies pulao. As we prefer one pot meal a lot and my kiddo loves to have pulao kind of rice varieties with plain yogurt,I tried the pulao.It came out very flavorful and delicious,had it with onion raitha,mixed veggie kurma. I exactly followed her same recipe except added few mint leaves while grinding.Now on to the recipe...... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Basmathi rice 1cup Whole mung beans/paasipayaru 1/2cup Onion 2nos.(medium size) Tomato 2nos.(medium size) Carrot(sliced) 1no. Potato(sliced) 1no.(medium size) Green peas(fresh or frozen) 1/2cup Oil 1tbs Ghee/nei 1tbs Salt a pinch To grind  Ingredient Quantity Ginger/inji 1 inch piece Poondu/Gar...