BANANA FLOWER RICE, VAZHAPOO SADAM,

Banana flower, kelechi phool, vazhapoo is very good for health.  After making the subzi, I thought of making the rice with the flower as my children will not eat if I give them the subzi.  Any kind of pulao, rice varieties are eaten by them even though they do not eat the subzi.  The only way to make them eat is parathas, pulao, biryani etc. in which I can dump any amount of vegetables which goes into their stomach without any problem.

The rice along with the onion raita, papad, pickle was awesome.

BLACK PEPPER RICE

We can make various rice varieties and each one has its taste and aromas.  Since so many days, I was thinking of preparing Black Pepper Rice somehow I could not do that.  Today, as I had to go out for my daughter's orientation programme, I decided to cook rice and quickly made the black pepper rice and went way so that after coming from the college, I can just heat it up and have it.

It was a simple preparation yet very delicious along with onion raita and papad.  Loved it.

ONION RASAM KICHADI

Kichadi is very soft, tasty and good for health.  When you serve the same  hot with little cow ghee, it is heavenly.  Kichadi is prepared with rice and moongdal with the masalas of rasam.  Today when I made it and shared with my colleagues during lunch time, they were having no words to praise it as they loved it so much.

The idea of making rasam rice came to my mind when I made Onion rasam yesterday.  The onion rasam was awesome.  I am sharing this recipe with you and am pretty sure, you all will like it.

BITTERGOURD RICE, KARELA BHATH

Most of the people does not like bitter gourd because of the bitter taste.  But when you consider the health benefits of this vegetable, you will definitely include the same atleast once in a week in your diet.  It is very good for the people who are suffering from diabetes.

I have made few varieties of dishes with bitter gourd.  pavakka curry,  bitter gourd sweet pachadi ,   bitter gourd pickle,   bitter gourd fry, Today when I was making stuffed karela for my husband, his favourtie dish, I thought of making the rice with it and it was a hit among my office colleagues.  They did not feel that they are eating karela bhath, instead one said it is bisibela bhath.

Whatever form you consume this vegetable, it is quite healthy and I am sure, you will definitely try this.

Let us look at the recipe now:

MASALA BHAT

Masala bhat is a  variety of rice prepared by North Indians especially Maharashtrians.  It is a mixture of rice, vegetables and masalas.  Serve it hot with chaas/butter milk.   Yummy it is.  You can mix any kind of vegetables in it and a best way to feed the children who do not eat the vegetables.  Also a very easy preparation for the bachelors, no hassles of making dal, subji etc.  So why are you waiting.  Grab the ingredients and go to the kitchen to relish the my way of masale bhat.

watch on Youtube; Masala bhat 1   Masala bhat 2         Masala bhat 3

JEERA RICE

Jeera rice, cumin seed rice is favourite of my daughter.  She loves to eat with tomato, cucumber raita.  whenever we go to a new hotel, she always order hara bara kabab as starter, Jeera rice and raita.

It is an easy and simple rice preparation and everyone will love to eat it.  Watch Youtube: Jeera rice,  Jeera rice part 2

DILL RICE, DILL PULAO, SUVA RICE, SUVA PULAO, SHEPUCHE BHAATH

I never used to like the smell of this herb/weed till such time one of my neighbour shared the subzi made out of this which I liked it.  Since then, I made it a point that atleast once in a month, I buy this.  Must tell   you that I am the only person who eat this subzi at home but I enjoy making this for myself and sharing with my office colleague.

Today, I was not in a mood to eat roti,  so I decided to make this pulao/rice for myself which was appreciated by my office colleagues.  Hope you all will enjoy this.

WOOD APPLE RICE, BEL FRUIT RICE, ELEPHANT APPLE RICE, MONKEY FRUIT RICE

We all prepare lemon rice, curd rice, dill rice, vegetable rice, mango rice, amla rice, tomato rice,  pulao and the varieties are endless.  Here is another variety of rice with wood apple.  Since I purchased a wood apple which was raw and was tasting sour, I decided to make wood apple chutney, wood apple pachadi , wood apple juice etc.  Here I am presenting the wood apple rice recipe.  It tastes like lime rice since it has got the sourness in it.

MORIYO VEN PONGAL, SAMA RICE VEN PONGAL, CHAMA ARI VEN PONGAL

Ven Pongal is a light and healthy dish made out of rice and moongdal.  I have already posted the Dalia Ven Pongal.  Now I am presenting the Moriyo Ven Pongal or Sama rice ven pongal, chama ari ven pongal, bhagar ven pongal called by various name in different languages.  This dish is served hot with sambar and chutney.

VEN PONGAL

Ven pongal is made usually by Tamilians for Pongal.  It is served as breakast too.  For wedding and all, this is compulsory in Tamil Nadu for Breakfast as I have observed with medu vada, chutney and sambar.   This is named as Kichadi in North India. and served hot with Kadhi, papad and pickle.   It is made with rice, moongdal, pepper corns, cumin seeds etc. The ghee and fried cashewnuts adds flavour to it.  I have also prepared this with Samo rice or Moriyo rice.  
I have also posted Dalia Ven Pongal. &   moriyo-ven-pongal-sama-rice-ven-pongal.html  

DALIA VEN PONGAL (BROKEN WHEAT VEN PONGAL)

Pongal festival is on 14th of this month, I thought of sharing some pongal recipes.   Ven pongal is a South Indian dish served for breakfast.    Basically, it is a mixture of rice and moongdal cooked  with pepper corns, cumin seeds etc. garnished with cashewnuts and served with chutney or  sambar.  You serve it for breakfast, lunch or dinner, the hot pongal like khichadi  made in North India is all time favourite.  I have seen this given as prasadam in temples too.  moriyo-ven-pongal-sama-rice-ven-pongal.html

Here is the variation with lapsi or dalia it is called.   Normally it is prepared with moongdal but I have added some vegetables too in it to enhance the taste as well as to make it more attractive for children to eat this.  

Ingredients:

1/2  cup lapsi (medium size) (broken wheat)

2 cups water

1/2 cup masoor dal

1 tbsp finely chopped french beans

1 tbsp finely chopped carrots

1 tbs green peas (optional)

1 tbs finely chopped potatoes

1 tbs each of bell peppers (red, green and yellow)

1/4 tsp crushed black pepper/cumin

1/4 tsp whole black pepper

salt

grated coconut (optional)

salt

turmeric powder a pinch

asafoetida

curry leaves

1 tsp  oil

1 tsp ghee

Garnishing;

Cashewnuts

1 tsp ghee

Method:

Wash the lapsi,  masoor dal, keep aside. You can use moong dal.  If you are using moongdal, dry roast the same till nice aroma comes, do not burn.  In a kadai, heat the oil and ghee, add the curry leaves, crushed black pepper/cumin, whole black pepper, asafoetida.  add the veggies and saute for a minute. add the water, turmeric powder, salt and bring to a boil.  add the lapsi/masoor dal, mix and cover it.  cook till it is done.

in case you feel that it is not cooked, add some hot water.   fry the cashews and garnish.  lapsi ven pongal is ready. 

serve hot with coconut chutney, sambar or any other chutneys.

BAMBOO RICE PULAO, MULA ARI PULAO

I have already posted Bamboo rice kheer.  Now I am posting Bamboo rice pulao.  This pulao tastes like the normal red boiled  rice pulao.  This is a medicinal rice too in ayurvedic and good for controlling cholesterol, sugar and blood pressure.  It also helps in reducing the join pain, back pain, arthritis pain etc.

bamboo rice pulao You tube

PULIYODARE l PULIYOGARE l TAMARIND RICE

Puliyodare l  Puliyogare l Tamarind Rice it is known as is made with Tamarind pulp and Puliyodare l Puliyogare l Tamarind rice Spice powder.  This is the speciality of South Indian dishes and in temples it is served as Prasadam specially in Balaji Temples.  The taste is awesome when it is served hot with papad.  We can make the tamarind paste and store in fridge and whenever you want to make it, only cook the rice.

Video : how to make the paste:

CURRY LEAVES KUZHAMBU RICE, KADHI PATTA AMTI BHATH

Curry leaves kuzhambu rice is made with curry leavaes kuzhambu paste. Like you prepare the normal tomato rice, coriander rice, this rice recipe is also equally tasty with papad and any kind of raita.  For the kuzhambu recipe, see the link  curry-leavaes-kuzhambu.html.  Since the curry leaves has got lot of health benefits, this is an ideal rice recipe for every one.

Let us look at the recipe now:

Curry leaves kuzhambu rice

Ingredients:

1 cup cooked rice
1- 1/2  tbsp curry leaves kuzhambu paste   (curry-leavaes-kuzhambu.html)
1 fistful of roasted peanuts
2-3 cashew nuts roasted
1 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
salt to taste

Method:

Heat oil in a kadai.  Add the mustard seeds.  When it splutters add the curry leaves paste, peanuts, cashew, cooked rice and mix well.  check for salt and if need be add.  If you feel that the curry leaves paste is less, you can add little bit more of this.  serve hot with papad, raita etc.

TUVAL DAL NE BAATH, TUVAR PULAO, TUVAR DAL PULAO, PULAO

                                                       

During winter season, you get fresh tuvar.  The taste of this is awesome.  You can either use fresh tuvar or tuvar dal for making this rice.  Garma garam pulao with raita or salad, papad,pickle,  it is really  yummy.  So why are you waiting? Let us begin to cook.

VEGETABLE BIRYANI

VEGETABLE BIRYANI can be made very easily if you have got vegetables like carrots, beans,green watana, onion,  cabbage etc.  It is an easy way to  make the children all the vegetables.

MANGO GINGER RICE (MANGA INJI SADAM)

Mango ginger rice or manga inji sadam or ambe halad bhath is prepared with mango ginger which is available in south side.  In north side also it is available and is called ambe halad (you get orange colour and white colour orange colour is used for preparing haldi powder after due process and white colour is used for pickle).  It is similar to the ginger but have a different taste.

FRIED RICE

Fried rice is made withe some mixed vegetables, soya sauce and pepper powder.  It is another way of making the children to eat the vegetables who are reluctant to eat vegetables viz. carrots, beans etc. You can serve this vegetable manchurian, gobi manchurian etc.

see the link for  vegetable-manchurian.html 

mix vegetable fried rice

KASHMIRI PULAO

Kashmiri pulao i tasted when we went to Srinagar around three years back.  Mr. Abdul who was our driver was kind enough to make us eat kashmiri pulao and  drink the famous Kava (a kind of tea they drink),  we liked very much and brought some tea packets which i still  have and enjoy once in a while. shall post the recipe soon.

This pulao is slightly sweet with mild spices, can be prepared easily.  The fried onions and nuts and fruits  adds more taste and flavour to this pulao.  It can be served with  onion, tomato, cucumber raita or lauki yakhni.  Lauki is called Al in Kashmiri and  Yakhni is a curd based sauce.  The lauki roundels are shallow fried and added to the  curd sauce which goes well with this pulao.  No garnish is made in this but for the photo, I have added coriander leaves as I like the same with the raita very much.

SEASAME RICE, ELLU SAADAM,

Ellu saadam or sesame seed rice is one of the Chitrannams (varieties of rice preparation) made during Pathinettamperukku.  On Saturday,  this rice is made and offered to Shani Bhagwan.  If it is given to the crows also, Shani bhagwan bless us because the Vehicle (Vaahanam) of Shani is Crow, is the belief.

Apart from the above, it is a flavourful rice, I love to eat.  Since I forgot to click the picture separately on the day of Pathinettamperukku, shall post the picture later on.

chitrannams