Peanut Rice is a spiced, nutty rice made using peanuts, herbs, spices and rice. Peanut Rice is relished by people who wish to try out new recipes in variety rice. It is also called Groundnut Rice or Verkadalai Sadam. Learn to make Peanut Rice with step by step pictures and video.
Trying out new variety rice has become a routine these days. I had bookmarked this Peanut Rice Recipe long back from a cookbook and suddenly remembered and made it last week. It turned out to be a great one pot rice. You can serve it with any vadams / papads as side dish. We call it kadalai sadam in tamil.
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About Peanut Rice
Peanut Rice is an easy and quick to make variety rice perfect to pack for lunchbox. It is very easy and quick to make perfect for lunchbox or for packing. I love all variety rice and now this has added to my list too.
Peanut rice is spiced and nutty loaded with flavors. It is one of the simple variety rice recipes that one must definitely try. Do try and enjoy this peanut rice.
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Peanut Rice Ingredients
- Cooked rice – I have used parboiled rice cooked using straining method. You can use basmati rice too.
- Roast and grind – Peanuts along with urad dal, sesame seeds, red chilies and coconut is roast and grind to a coarse powder and used.
- Tempering – A tempering is done with peanut oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and peanuts.
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How to make Peanut Rice Step by Step
1.First add all other ingredients except coconut and roast till peanuts turn slightly golden then add coconut and roast till nut turn golden brown and coconut is dry.
2.No need to brown the coconut. Cool down the mixture completely then transfer to mixer jar. Grind to a slightly coarse mixture.
3.Heat oil in a kadai – add the items listed under ‘to temper’ let it splutter. Now to a mixing bowl add rice, peanut mixture and tempering along with required salt. Mix well.
Peanut rice is ready!
Serve the rice hot with papad / chips! Flavorful peanut rice ready to be served!
Expert Tips
- You can make the spice powder a day ahead and just mix it the next day to pack for lunch.
- While grinding just pulse and grind else the spice powder will become sticky.
Adding a teaspoon of oil while mixing rice keeps the rice moist. - If you do not have peanut oil replace it with gingelly oil or normal cooking oil.
Serving and Storage
Peanut rice can be served with papad or any thogayal. Peanut rice keeps well in fridge for 1 days, reheat and serve it.
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Peanut Rice Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked rice
- salt to taste
To roast:
- 1/4 cup peanuts
- 1 teaspoon urad dal
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 2 red chilies
- 2 tablespoon coconut
To temper:
- 2 teaspoon peanut oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
- few curry leaves
- 1-2 tablespoon peanuts
Instructions
- First add all other ingredients except coconut and roast till peanuts turn slightly golden then add coconut and roast till nut turn golden brown and coconut is dry.
- No need to brown the coconut. Cool down the mixture completely then transfer to mixer jar. Grind to a slightly coarse mixture.
- Heat oil in a kadai – add the items listed under ‘to temper’ let it splutter. Now to a mixing bowl add rice, peanut mixture and tempering along with required salt. Mix well.
- Peanut rice is ready!
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Notes
- You can make the spice powder a day ahead and just mix it the next day to pack for lunch.
- While grinding just pulse and grind else the spice powder will become sticky.
Adding a teaspoon of oil while mixing rice keeps the rice moist. - If you do not have peanut oil replace it with gingelly oil or normal cooking oil.
Priya R
Peanut rice looks heavenly 🙂 love your method
achoo
Vow…. lookg too gud and really perfect lunch box menu…. 🙂 last photo makes me feel like having it now…. do we need to remove the skin of peanuts or we can powder it with the skin ….
SHARMILEE J
I powdered it along with skin as you can see in my stepwise…its purely your preference.
Sona S
Flavorful and delicious peanut rice.
Veena Theagarajan
I am big fan of Peanut.. Love this.. It is a must for our family at least once a week
Arthy Suman
pics looks so neat and im sure rice tasted great…
Yes Cook
Sharmi, I want to eat that right now.
Looks delicious.
Thanks for sharing.
Shabitha Karthikeyan
Looks good !! Nicely captured !
Priya Suresh
One of my fav rice after sesame seeds rice..Inviting.
shivangi
What do we call gingelly oil in hindi…???and what are the options in case this is not available..???
SHARMILEE J
Not sure what it is called in hindi….you can replace it with ghee / cooking oil
Gayathri Sathyanarayanan
looks simple and good.
poorni chandru
Shivangi..gingelly oil is referred as "til ka thel" in Hindi..
sharmilee..this s too simple..i usually get worried abt wat to pack in the lunchbox for my 5 yr old son..now this s easy to make soon:))thanks for sharing..
Jam
I used Aval instead of rice and made the recipe Sharmilee and it turned out yummy ! Thanks
mahaguru
Pls mention which color of sesame seed?
SHARMILEE J
Updated in the recipe too…its white sesame seeds
mahaguru
Tks 4 ur reply.
Suba
Made it today
Yummy
Thanks sharmi
Sathyaseelan Rajendran
Can we use roasted peanuts or just dried peanuts ?
SHARMILEE J
It is roasted peanuts and for tempering raw peanuts…now updated the ing list