Mango Rice

Mango rice is a ANDHRA speciality. Rice mixed with grated unripe mango is as simple and easiest as lemon rice and is served during Ugadi festival. People celebrate the season’s fresh produce of mangoes by preparing mango rice. Lets learn how to make mango rice with Archana......

Ingredients:

3 cups cooked rice, each grain should be seperate
1 1/2 cup peeled and grated raw mango
1 1/2 tbsp oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tbsp chana dal
1 tbsp split black gram dal (urad dal)
1/4 cup peanuts
1/4 tsp hing
1tsp turmeric powder
few curry leaves
5-6 green chillies, slit lenghtwise
2-3 whole red chillies, broke into pieces
salt to taste

Method:

1: Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Once they pop, add hing, chana dal, gram dal (urad dal), peanuts and let them turn pale gold on medium heat.

2: Now add green chillies, red chillies, curry leaves, turmeric powder and saute for few seconds.

3: At the end add grated mango and cook for 2-3 minutes. Turn off the heat and keep aside.

4: Spread the cooked rice on a wide plate, sprinkle salt and add the tempering and use your hand to combine well till the tempering is well blended with the rice. Adjust salt.

5: Serve with mango pickle.....

Sending this to  HCC - Healthy Lunch happening @ Edible Entertainment (started by Smita).

Meet you all again with another interesting recipe, till then it is bye from Archana.