Tiranga Rice

Wishing all a very Happy Independence Day

To celebrate independence day, I thought of preparing something special and came up with this idea of preparing three varieties of rice - tomato rice, coconut rice and a "special" pudina rice.

Tomato Rice

Ingredients:

Rice (basmati)- 1 cup boiled.

Tomato - 2, blanched and pureed

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Onion - 1 medium chopped
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt - To taste

Blanched Tomatoes

Method:

Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds to it. When it crackles, add onion and fry till transparent. Add tomoto puree and fry till it leaves oil. Add boiled rice and salt and mix well. Cover it for 2 - 3 minutes.

Coconut Rice

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup boiled

Cocunut- 1 cup grated and ground

White Urad dal - 1 tsp

Hing (asefoetida) - 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves - 1 tbsp
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt - To taste

Method:

Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and hing. When it crackles, add urad dal and fry till golden color. Add curry leaves and coconut and fry for 5 minutes on low flame. Add rice and salt and mix well. Cover it for 2 - 3 minutes.

Pudina (Mint) Rice

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup boiled

Spring Onions - 2 chopped

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Oil - 1 tbsp

Pudina (Mint) - 1/2 bunch
Garlic - 2 flakes
Green chillies - 1


Method:

Grind pudina, garlic and green chillies and keep it aside.
Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. When it crackles, add spring onion and fry till transparent. Add pundina paste and rice and mix well. Cover it for 2 - 3 minutes.

Tip

Mint can be grown at home in a small pot. I have tried it at home. It smells and tastes great and is organic too.

Independence Day Quotes

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"One individual may die for an idea; but that idea wil l, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next’"
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."

- George Bernard Shaw

"At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never l ost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"

--Mark Twain

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