Carrot Rice
Carrot Rice is a healthy meal made by tempering carrot along with spices and then mixing them with cooked rice. Carrot Rice is an easy & healthy recipe and a lunch box menu for school and office goers. How to make Carrot Rice is posted in this recipe with step by step pictures and video.
Servings2
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 3/4 cup carrot finely grated
- 1 medium sized onion finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 tablespoon peanuts
- 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1 tablespoon coriander leaves
- salt to taste
To temper:
- 2 and 1/2 teaspoon oil
- 1 teaspoon jeera
- 1/4 inch cinnamon
- 1 no clove
- a sprig curry leaves
Instructions
- Cook rice and spread it on a plate to make it grains seperated....alternatively you can use leftover rice too.Heat oil in a pan - add peanuts.
- Fry until golden then set aside.
- Set aside.In the same pan - add the items listed under 'to temper' let it crackle
- Then onion with ginger garlic paste, saute till it turns slightly browned.
- Then add freshly grated carrot saute for a while till it shrinks and raw smell leaves.
- Then add required salt along with red chilli amd garam masala powders.
- Saute till the masalas nicely blends with the veggie.Then add peanuts, rice and mix well.
- Finally add cooked rice.
- Mix well, cook in low flame for 3 mins, sprinkle coriander leaves and switch off.
Video
Notes
- You can use ghee if you are making this for kids.
- You can skip whole spices and just temper jeera. And replace garam masala powder with sambar powder.
- Instead of peanuts, you can even add ghee fried cashews.
- You can even use leftover rice for this recipe.
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