Jan 23, 2014

Karibevu Chitranna / Curry Leaves Rice

Karibevu Chitranna or Curry Leaves Rice is a healthy and flavorful one pot meal made with Curry leaves blended with spices. Nutritious, flavorful and delicious. Enjoy!!


Ingredients


Grinding
Grated coconut: 2-3 tbsp 
Jeera: 1-2 tsp
Red chili: 4-5 (according to taste)
Pepper:2-3
Salt:for taste
Curry leaves-handful

Seasoning-
peanuts: few
Cashews-few
Hing-Pinch
oil for frying 3-4 tsp
Mustard -1/2 tsp
Urad dal-1/2 tsp
Chana dal-1/2 tsp



Method-  Pressure cook rice and spread it on plate to cool. 
In a kadai,roast curry leaves,jeera,red chilies,pepper in little oil.
Next grind curry leaves, jeera,pepper,red chillies with coconut to a nice paste with little water.Take a kadai, heat oil and add peanuts /cashews and fry well.Keep it aside.Add mustard,chana dal urad dal,hing,and sauté. Add the coconut curry paste mixture and fry for1-2 mins.
Next add the rice, salt ,fried peanuts and mix well and serve Karibevu Chitranna / Curry Leaves Rice hot.


(you can add green chilies i/o of red if req)


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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good healthy rice!

malabar neem said...

hey what are the other dishes that can be prepared using malabar neem (karibevu) can you please some more information about malabar neem plant and its edible parts?

Smita Shrisha said...

have made Chutney from curry leaves
http://smishri.blogspot.in/2013/06/karibevu-chutneycurry-leaves-chutney.html

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