Fresh Green Gram Rice

A quick fix rice dish when you have unexpected guests or when you are in a dilema what to cook for a quick meal with ingredients easily available at home. I am happy to have used the coriander which grew in my tiny kitchen window.

Ingredients

2 cups long grain rice

2 onions chopped into long thin pieces

4 green chillies slit

1/2 cup fresh green gram

Juice of half a lime

10 peppercorns roughly pounded

Salt to taste

1/2 a teaspoon sugar

Fresh green coriander

1 spoon cumin seeds

2 spoons clarified butter and 1 spoon oil

Method

in a pressure cooker put two tablespoons of clarified butter, 1 tablespoon oil, add cumin seeds let them splutter, add the green chillies, add onions, let them become lightly brown, add the fresh green gram, the rice, pounded pepper corns, stir well, add four cups of water, add salt sugar and the coriander, lime juice, stir well and cover cook to two whistles. The rice should neither be dry nor too sticky. Cook it to a nice moist dish. Garnish with more chopped coriander. Serve hot.