Amla Rice
Amla Rice- A healthy delicious rice and Indian Gooseberry pulao
Servings: 2 person
Ingredients
- 3 cup Cooked rice
- 8 big Indian Gooseberry /amla
- to taste Salt / Namak
- Pinch of Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 3 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch chopped
- Handful of Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya chopped
- 1/2 inch Ginger / Adrak chopped
- Pinch Roasted Fenugreek Powder optional
- 1 tbsp Ghee/Clarified Butter optional
tempering/ tadka
- 3 tbsp Peanuts / Moongphali
- 1 tsp Bengal gram /chana daal
- 1 tsp White lentil/urad daal
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai *
- 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 2 Dried Red Chilli, Whole
- 10 Curry Leaves / Kadi Patta
- 4 tbsp Cooking Oil
Instructions
- Wash amla and chop into small pieces ,discard the seeds.
- Take a mixer jar and add chopped green chilies, ginger, amla and fresh coriander and grind to make a paste. can add 1-2 tsp water if having difficulty in grinding.
- Heat oil in a wide pan and add peanuts and fry for few seconds til it start to crackle.
- Now add urad daal, chana daal and stir for few seconds. then add cumin, mustard seed ,dried red chili, asafoetida and curry leaves and saute.
- When the cumin and the lentils become golden red in colour then add the amla paste in the pan and saute for 2 minutes on medium heat.
- Now add turmeric powder,the cooked rice, salt , roasted fenugreek powder and mix gently..
- Cook till the rice become hot and steaming.at this step you can add 1 tbsp of ghee before switching off the heat.
- Serve amla rice with papad, potato chips, aloo sabzi ,boondi raita or buttermilk.
Notes
Note-
- Cook the rice till just done , don't make it mushy. spread the rice in a plate so it will cool down completely before making this amla rice.
- I prefer to use leftover rice sitting in the fridge.
- Instead of peanuts you can add cashew nuts.
- can add few drops of lemon juice in the rice.