Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Nutty Brinjal Rice


Ingredients:
  • Basmati rice – 100 g
  • Water – 200 ml
  • Split channa dal – 1 Table spoon
  • Black gram seeds - 1 Table spoon
  • Cumin seeds – 1 Table spoon
  • Coriander seeds – ½ Table spoon
  • Fenugreek seeds – ¼ Tea spoon
  • Sesame seeds – ¼ Tea spoon
  • Dried Red chili – 1
  • Ground nut – 1 Table spoon
  • Brinjal  (large) – 1
  • Onion (small lemon size) – 1
  • Mustard seeds
  • Oil – 3 Table spoon
  • Asafoetida - Pinch
  • Curry leaves – few
  • Salt to taste
  • Coriander leaves
  • Roasted cashews and ground nuts – 2 Table spoons
 Method:
  • Soak rice in water for about 20 mins. Cook rice with 200ml water and keep it aside.
  • Chop onion and brinjal into small pieces.
  • Dry roast split channa dal, black gram seeds, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, fenugreek seeds, sesame seeds, ground nut, asafoetida and red chili.
  • Grind them into course powder.
  • In a vessel, heat oil. When the oil is in medium heat add mustard seeds. When they pop up add onion, curry leaves and a pinch of salt. Sauté till onion is slightly brown.
  • Add brinjal and Sauté till it is done (don’t mash brinjal pieces).
  • Add ground mixture and toss them well.
  • Add cooked rice and mix thoroughly by not breaking rice.
  • Adjust salt and sprinkle roasted cashews and ground nuts.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves.

23 comments:

  1. Wow nutty brinjal rice looks delicious...awesome click..

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  2. adding groundnuts to rice is interesting.
    As always great click!

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  3. Brinjal rice looks awesome adding nuts gives nice aroma to the rice,,sure it will tastes good.thanks for sharing the recipe,,,take care n keep on smiling.

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  4. hey forgot to say .. beautiful presentation as well

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  5. I am just drooling over here ... Very healthy and rich too right ?

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  6. great dish.nice presentation.

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  7. very lovely presentation Dear..the rice makes me hungry now..

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  8. superb presentation .. i m sure its a mouthwatering dish :)

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  9. looks delicious,love nuts added to it...

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  10. Healthy and yummy rice.. Please do collect your award from my blog..

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  11. Crunchy and delicious rice...

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  12. Very interesting version of brinjal rice. Nice click.

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  13. Hai!!! Krishna,,nice to know more abt u...r u from cbe dear,,am from tirupur...

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  14. Cool..GR8..I will try this recipe looks awesome!!

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  15. lovely brinjal rice...thnx for visiting my menu card blog...it is still under construction...do visit my main blog @ http://southernspiceworld.blogspot.com/ when you have some time...
    will be back soon to check out other recipes from your awesome recipe collection...

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  16. One more new recipe to me from your's.Will try this delicious rice dear..

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  17. awesome click and lovely recipe...loved the simple but elegant presentation too :-)

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  18. Been looking for a good brinjal rice recipe and looks like this is it! Love all the other recipes in your blog too.

    And guess what, we are practically neighbors - BC and Seattle!

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  19. Delicious rice...nice blog....have added you to mylist

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  20. woww now thats a beautiful healthy rice :)... delicious dear :)

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  21. Hello friends thanks for your valuable comments

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  22. wow... looks delicious.. following you

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  23. very nice nutty brinjal rice. Thanks for your comment in my blog.

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