Carrot Rice

This is a simple rice preparation that needs only minutes to make..I mean only few minutes..It can be made from start to finish in less than 15 mins and ofcourse you should have your rice cooked readily for this..You can use up left over rice from the previous batch too..

Ingredients:

Rice – 3 cups cooked (any rice)

Carrot – 3 medium size grated

Onion -1 finely chopped

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Green Chilli – 2 chopped

Channa Dal / Kadalai Paruppu – 1 tsp

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds / Jeerakam – 1tsp

Sesame Seeds / Yellu – 1 tblspn

Peanuts / Ver kadalai – 1 tblspn

Dry Red Chilli – 1

Cinnamon / Pattai – 1 inch piece

Cardamom / Yelakai - 4

Salt to taste

Ghee – 2 tblspn

Method:

Heat ghee in a kadai. Add mustard, cumin, peanuts, sesame seeds, channa dal, cinnamon, cardamom, dry red chilli. Fry this for a min untill they turn golden.

Now add onions, green chilli and salt and fry for 1 min.

Add grated carrots and toss well..Stir fry this for 5 mins..

Add in cooked rice and toss well..

Serve with any side dish or papad..