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Vegetable Rice
My recipe of Mixed Vegetable Rice is a very healthy one, easy one too, requiring only vegetables and lentils - any vegetables that you have at home and any lentils, sprouts, nuts etc. Everyone wants a recipe that is healthy and easy too, with less ordeal of roasting and grinding in the kitchen.
This recipe was shared once by a renowned caterer in Chennai. He said that after cooking elaborate meals for weddings or other events, his whole team would be so tired and sick with the preparation of the exotic meals that they would make this Mixed Vegetable Rice quickly, with the leftover vegetables and lentils - and what a recipe this is ! My God, one needs to try it out to believe me. No masalas, no butter, no ghee!! Sheer healthy plate of yummy goodness!!
So welcome to yet another of my kitchen adventures!
Ingredients:
Short grained rice/raw rice - 1 cup
Water - 4 cups
Onions (medium) - 2
Broad beans - 200 gms
Chayote or Bottle Gourd/Chow-Chow - 1
Potatoes (medium) - 2
Red Lobia beans - 1 small cup
Green chillies - 4
Curry leaves - few
Sambar powder - 4 tsp
Asafoetida - ¼ tsp
Any oil - 4 tsps
Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
Cumin seeds//Jeera - ½ tsp
Bengal gram dal - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Method:
Soak the red lobia beans in water for few hours or use any beans like Garbanzo or use sprouts (If you have time, soak the beans overnight)
Wash the soaked beans in water thoroughly and drain of water and keep aside
Roughly chop all the vegetables
Slit the green chillies and keep them whole
Heat oil in a cooker
Splutter mustard seeds
Then add cumin seeds/jeera and roast
Now quickly add the bengal gram dhal and allow to turn golden
Add asafoetida
Then, add the onions and saute for few seconds - no need to turn translucent or golden
Now, add all the other vegetables and the lobia beans and stir-fry together over medium flame
Now add the sambar powder and mix well
Meanwhile boil 3 cups of water separately
Now, pour the hot water to the vegetables
Mix well adding salt
When everything is boiling well add the 1 cup of washed rice
Allow everything to boil together adding few curry leaves
Now close the cooker with its lid placing the weight
Simmer the flame to the lowest and allow to cook for 12 or 15 minutes
No need to look out for whistles from the cooker
When the pressure subsides, gently open the cooker
Serve the yummy Vegetable Rice with raitha of your choice
"When you start eating food without labels, you no longer need to count your calories."
Mixed Vegetable Rice
“When you start eating food without labels, you no longer need to count calories”. My recipe of Mixed Vegetable Rice is a very healthy one, easy one too, requiring only vegetables and lentils - any vegetables that you have at home and any lentils, sprouts, nuts etc. Everyone wants a recipe that is healthy and easy too, with less ordeal of roasting and grinding in the kitchen.
This recipe was shared once by a renowned caterer in Chennai. He said that after cooking elaborate meals for weddings or other events, his whole team would be so tired and sick with the preparation of the exotic meals that they would make this Mixed Vegetable Rice quickly, with the leftover vegetables and lentils - and what a recipe this is ! My God, one needs to try it out to believe me. No masalas, no butter, no ghee!! Sheer healthy plate of yummy goodness!!
So welcome to yet another of my kitchen adventures!
Ingredients:
Short grained rice/raw rice - 1 cup
Water - 4 cups
Onions (medium) - 2
Broad beans - 200 gms
Chayote or Bottle Gourd/Chow-Chow - 1
Potatoes (medium) - 2
Red Lobia beans - 1 small cup
Green chillies - 4
Curry leaves - few
Sambar powder - 4 tsp
Asafoetida - ¼ tsp
Any oil - 4 tsps
Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
Cumin seeds//Jeera - ½ tsp
Bengal gram dal - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
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