Saturday, 24 December 2016


Rice with fresh winter special pulses
This is a quick fix rice dish, when you have unexpected guests and you need to make a filling dish with ingredients usually available in every household. I have used fresh tur dana or green pigeon peas, harbhara or green whole chickpea. They actually take the taste of the simple dish to another level! I was also pleased to use the fresh coriander which grew in my tiny balcony.

Ingredients
2 cups long grain rice
50 gms harbhara
50 gms Tur dana (fresh green pigeon pea)
1 onion finely chopped

Ingredients to be made into a paste
3 green chillies
1/2 an inch of ginger roughly chopped
1 small tomato roughly chopped
1 onion roughly chopped
1 small bunch coriander cleaned and just roughly torn
4 cloves garlic
Juice of half a lime

Method
Keep the paste ready of the ingredients above mentioned.
In a cooker take little oil, add the chopped onion, let it cook till light brown, add the masala paste, salt to taste, the pigeon peas and the chickpeas, rice, mix well, add water double the quantity of rice, give it 2 whistles and it is ready. Serve hot topped with finely chopped coriander.
This dish according to me does not need any accompaniment, but if you do feel like it, then have yogurt or curry with it.
This tastes good when made with any of the seasonal whole green pulses available in the market.

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