Ingredients for Mint Rice:
1. Basmati rice – 1 cup
2. Mint leaf – 1 cup
Coriander leaf – ½ cup
Coconut grated – 1 cup
Green chillies – 3
Ginger chopped – 1 small spoon
Garlic chopped -1 small spoon
Lemon juice – 1 big spoon
Salt – For taste
3. Oil – 3 big spoons
4. Bay leaf (Vayana Ila) – 2
Cinnamon – 1 piece
Cloves – 3
Cardamom – 3
5. Onions – 1, sliced
Green chillies – 3, chopped into thin round pieces
6. Salt – For taste
7. Cashews – 2 big spoons, fried
Mint leaves – 1 big spoon
Pappadam – 2, cut lengthwise and fried
How to prepare Mint Rice?
1. Wash rice and cook 2.5 cups of water. Water content should be fully absorbed.
2. Spread cooked rice into a dish and allow it to cool.
3. Make a fine paste of ingredients no: 2 to prepare mint chutney.
4. Heat oil in a pan and sauté ingredients no: 4.
5. Then sauté ingredients no: 5 till onions turn golden brown.
6. Add mint chutney to it and sauté well.
7. Add rice along with salt to this mixture and mix well.
8. When the chutney gets fully absorbed, take the mint rice from the flame.
9. Transfer the rice to a serving plate and decorate with ingredients no: 7.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine December 15-31, 2016
Read one more simple recipe of Mint Rice:
Heat 2 small spoons of oil in a pan and sputter ½ a small spoon of mustard. Add 1 cup each of chopped mint leaves and onions, and saute the contents. Add ½ a small spoonful of turmeric powder and ½ a small spoonful of garam masala powder, and fry the contents. Add salt and 1.5 cups of boiled basmati rice, and mix the contents. Decorate with fresh mint leaves and serve hot.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, December 15 – 31, 2019
Also read: Mint Sadam recipe, which is a part of Tamil Nadu Cuisine
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