Capsicum Rice - No onion and Garlic Version

Another session of Blogging Marathon has started and for this session I chose the theme,Cook with Capsicum.So for the next following 2 days I will be posting capsicum aka bell pepper recipes.
Today's recipe is as simple and signature South Indian variety rice with the loads of flavor.The highlight of the recipe is the freshly ground spice powder.This rice is a perfect one pot meal for lunch box and tastes great with raita and chips,pappads.Here goes the recipe.........................

Basic Information

Preparation time ~ 10 minutes
Cooking Time      ~ 20 minutes
Serves ~ 2

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Raw rice or Basmathi rice	1cup
Capsicum/kudamilagai(chopped)	1(appro.1 cup)
Oil	1tbs
Salt	1tsp
Cashews/mundiri(broken)	1tbs(optional)
Curry leaves/karivepillai	4-5 leaves

For the spice powder(to roast and grind)

Ingredient	Quantity
Dried Red chilly/varamilagai	3
Coriander seeds/dhaniya	1tbs
Bengal gram dhal/kadalaparuppu	2tsp
Peanuts/nila kadalai	1tbs
Sesame seeds/yellu	1tsp(optional)
Coconut(grated)	1tbs

For the tempering

Ingredient	Quantity
Mustard seeds/kadugu	1/2tsp
Urad dhal/kulutham paruppu	1tsp
Bengal gram dhal/kadalaparuppu	1tsp
Asafoetida/perungayam	a pinch

Method

Cook the rice in a pressure cooker or rice cooker with a pinch of salt and few drops of oil.Care should be taken not to cook too soft.Once the rice is done,cool it completely.
Meanwhile heat pan and dry roast the red chilly,channa dhal,coriander seeds to a golden,then add the grated coconut and sesame seeds and fry it for a minute.

Let it cool down,powder it to a coarse powder.Keep it aside.Heat a pan with oil and do the tempering with the ingredients.

Add the cashews and curry leaves then goes in chopped capsicum,saute it with a pinch of salt for a minute or two.Cook it covered till the capsicum is soft.Now add the ground spice powder,salt.

Mix it well and put off the fire.Add the cooked rice to it and mix it gently till everything combined well.

Delicious and flavorful capsicum rice is ready.

Enjoy............................................................

• Here I use basmathi rice,if you want you can use the regular rice.
• Dry roast the whole spices in a low to medium flame to get cooked evenly without burning.
• Peanuts can be added in seasoning also instead of powder but it gives an extra flavor.

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