Karuveppilai Sadam / Curry Leaves Rice

Karuveppilai is one of the healthy ingredients we use in our daily cooking. But sadly we pick and throw it away.... It's packed with fiber, calcium, phosphorous, rich in iron, not only it helps your heart function better, fights infections and also enliven your hair & skin with vatality... so we always want to consume it.. 

I use it in my hair oil, just for the sake of the hair fall and now to avoid grey hair.. My friend ask me to prepare to post this curry leaves rice so I plan to try this recipe to her. Packed this for your kids lunch box tooo... (the lunch is packed with healthy benifits)

So I hope that you must try this recipe and let me know how it's turns out from you....

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 20 mins

Serve - 3

Recipe Cuisine - South Indian

Recipe Category - Rice Recipe

INGREDIENTS :

Boiled rice - 1 cup (i use normal rice)

Salt - as needed

TO ROAST AND POWDER:

Curry leaves - 1 cup or a hand ful

Channa dal - 1 tbspn

Toor dal - 1 tbspn

Red chilli - 6 to 7 nos

Coriander seeds - 1 tspn

Pepper corns - 1/2 tspn

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tspn

Gingelly oil - 2 tspn

TO TEMPER :

Gigelly oil - 1 tbspn

Mustard - 1 tspn

Urad dal - 1 tspn

Channa dal - 1 tbspn

Cashew - 7 to 10 nos

METHOD :

• First cook the rice with a spoon of salt and allow to cool the rice in a broad vessel.
• Roast all the items under " To roast and powder ". Roast untill it turn light golden in colour.
• Once cooled, Add the roasted items to a blender and make it a fine paste..
• In the same pan with oil, add in mustard seeds and urad dal, allow to crackle..
• Add in channa dal and cashew, fry till it crisp.. keep aside.
• Take rice and add in powdered masala curry leaves powder, tempered items and mix well.
• Please check the salt, mix it evenly..
• Now the curry leaves rice is ready to serve.
• Enjoy..

PICTORIAL :

 Take all the ingredients for roasting

 Add them to a pan, except curry leaves

 Add some oil

 Roast till golden 

 Once it roasted

 Add in fresh curry leaves

 For 2 to 3 mins in low flame

 Once it cool add them to a blender

 Make it a fine powder

 Cook the rice with salt and allow to cool

Once it cool completely

 Add curry leaves masala powder

 Now make a temper, heat a pan with oil

 Add in mustard and urad dal 

 When it crackle

 Add in channa dal and cashew

Fry till golden

 Pour over your rice

 Now it's time to mix

 Mix it evenly

 Check the salt

 Now it's done

 Transfer them to a bowl

 Serve hot

 Enjoy..