Peanut Rice / Verkadalai Satham

     Peanut Rice / Verkadalai Satham:

         

Ingredients :

·        Cooked Rice – 1 cup

·        Salt as needed

To make peanut podi :

·        Raw peanuts – ½ cup

·        Dry red chilli – 4
      coriander seeds - 1  to 2 spn

·        Channa dal / kadalai paruppu – 3

·        Curry leaves - few

For seasoning:

·        Oil – 2 spn

·        Mustard seeds – ½ spn

·        Peanut – 2 spn

·        urad dal – 1 spn

·        Grated coconut – 3 spn

·        Curry leaves - few

Preparation :

·        Pressure cook the rice with little salt and spread it on a plate to cool.

·        First ,heat the pan and add the channa dal ,coriander seeds, red chilli and curry leaves. Roast it for a few mins. The transfer it to the mixie and grind it to a coarse powder.

·        In the same pan, dry roast the peanuts for 5 to 7 mins till raw smell goes off and pulse it in a mixie for few secs. Now the peanut podi is ready.

·        Second , For seasoning ,heat oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds when it splutters, add urad dal , peanut and sauté till they turn golden brown.

·        Then add grated coconut and curry leaves ,sauté for few secs.

·        Then mix well the cooked  cool rice, seasoning and peanut podi. Toss well everything.Done !

·        If it spicy add few dropes of gingelly oil or sesame oil.

                                          

Delicious Peanut rice is ready.. . J