Peanut rice | South Indian style peanut rice
Peanut rice is one dish which makes its accompaniments tastier. With the right mix of flavours, Peanut rice has always been everyone’s favourite. This recipe by parveen is the perfect one to try at home for your family. The Peanut rice recipe is very simple and can be made in restaurant style using these ingredients. The time taken while preparing Peanut rice is 05 mins and the time taken for cooking is 25 mins. This is recipe of Peanut rice is perfect to serve 3 people. Peanut rice is just the appropriate option to prepare when you have a get together or party at home. Be it kids or grownups, everyone just absolutely love Peanut rice. So do try it next time and share your experience of cooking Peanut rice by commenting on this page below!
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Ingredients (240 ml cup used)
- 1 ½ cups rice (regular or basmati)
- ¼ cup or 4tbsp peanuts
- 1 ½ tbsp chana dal
- 1 tbsp urad dal
- 1 garlic clove chopped
- 2 to 3 sprigs of curry leaves
- 2 to 3 red chilies (adjust to suit your taste)
- ½ to ¾ tsp cumin / jeera
- 1 tbsp. desiccated coconut or sesame seeds (optional)
- 2 tbsps. Of oil (sesame, olive oil or coconut oil)
How to make the recipe
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Wash and soak rice for sometime. Cook it without making mushy. Spread it on a plate and cool completely.
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While the rice cooks, roast the dals on a medium to low flame until golden. Set them aside.
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Roast peanuts and garlic until half done. Add curry leaves and red chilies. Continue to roast until the peanuts are roasted well and the curry leaves turn crisp.
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Add coconut or sesame seeds if using along with cumin. Saute for a min. Switch off and cool completely.
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Powder chana dal and urad dal finely. Add peanuts and other roasted ingredients. Powder finely or coarsely as per your liking.
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Method 1: Heat oil in a pan, add half tsp mustard seeds, 1 broken red chili and hing. When they splutter, add the powder and salt. Switch off. Add the cooled rice and mix.
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Method 2:Sprinkle the powder over the cooled rice along wit salt & oil . Mix well.
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Serve peanut rice with vegetable salad or a stir fry.
