Curry Leaves Rice / Karruvepelai Sadam

Curry leaves Rice

This is a very easy lunch box special recipe. This dish is full of iron and vitamins. We can prepare the curry leaves powder in an airtight container, and store it, so that it will be easy to prepare this recipe whenever you want.

Ingredients :

Curry leaves   - 1cup
Cooked rice    - 1 small bowl
Sesame oil      - 2 tablespoons
Mustard           - 1 tsp
Urud dhal          - 2tsp
Channa dhal     - 1tsp
Peanuts             -1 tablespoons
Red chills           - 2-3 according to taste
Pepper                - 1/2 tsp
Hing                     -1/2 tsp
Salt                       - according to taste

Ingredients to be dry roasted :

Channa dhal, urud dhal 1 tsp, red chills, pepper, curry leaves.

Dry roast the above mentioned ingredients and make a powder.

Once the dry roasted ingredients, comes to room temperature, need to power it in mixer jar.

We can store the curry leaves powder, in an airtight container, so that the flavour remains the same.

Method:

# Take a pan or kadai, heat 1 tablespoons of sesame oil, add mustard when it crackle add urud dhal 1tsp, peanuts, salt.

 # When tempering things gets roasted switch off the stove and add curry leaves powder which you have prepared and add the cooked rice. 

# Mix all ingredients well, you may taste and add some more salt if needed, and add 1 tablespoons of sesame oil mix well. 

     This is one of my favorite Lunch Box Special. You can even prepare the curry leaves powder and store in air tight container, which will last for a month.
     This dish gives wonderful aroma.