Kempu Chitranna
A flavourful food which can be prepared during festivities and celebrations.
Servings 4 people
Calories 200kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice
- 1/2 fresh coconut
- 2 teaspoon mustard
- 6-8 dry red chilly
- 3 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard
- 1 teaspoon bengal gram
- 1 teaspoon urad dal
- 6-8 cashew broken into pieces
- a few curry leaves
- 1 tablespoon groundnuts
- salt to taste
- 2 tablespoon groundnuts
Instructions
- Cook the rice in a pressure cooker and keep it to cool. The grains should be seperate.
- Grind mustard seeds, red chilly and coconut to a paste.
- Take a pan and oil to it. Add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.
- Then, put bengal gram, urad dal, asafoetida and turmeric powder to it.
- Once it turns golden, add groundnut to it. Allow it to cook for a minute. The rawness of the nuts should not be there.Then add cashew pieces and curry leaves.
- Now, add the paste to it
- Saute the paste for five minutes. You get a good aroma when it is done. Switch off the stove.
- Put rice and thoroughly mix it. Kempu Chitranna or red rice is ready to serve.
Notes
- Add little water while making the paste.
- You can see coconut pieces in the picture, the copra came out of the shell and thus I cut and used it.
- The water used in cooking the rice differs from each kind of raw rice used. Thus, I do not mention it.
- 1 cup =250 ml is the measurement cup used