Beetroot peanut rice-Easy healthy kids lunch box recipe

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India| Preparation Time: 10 min | Cooking Time: 8 min | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Chips, pickles | Type: Lunch

Ingredients

• Rice - 1 cup
• Beetroot – 1 [finely grated]
• Roasted peanuts[nilakadalai, verkadalai, groundnut] – ½ cup [peeled]
• Onion – 1 [sliced]
• Garlic – 1 [finely chopped or mashed]
• Green chilli – 1 [slit]
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil – 3 tbsp
• Water as needed.

Preparation Method

• Boil rice then let it cool.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds & let it splutter. Then add Bengal gram, urad dal, peanuts sauté.
• Add onion & garlic sauté till soft or light brown. Then add green chilli & curry leaves.
• Add grated beetroot, red chilli powder, turmeric powder & salt sauté.
• Add water & cook till soft [Apr. for 3 min]. Once moisture disappear cut off heat or in a low flame mix boiled and cooled rice mix well. Then cut off heat serve hot.

Verkadalai beetroot sadam