Green Gram Rice | Pasi Payaru(Pachai payaru) Satham | Moong dal Rice

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Kurma | Type: Lunch

Ingredients

• Basmati rice - 1 cup [ Boiled ]
• Moong dal [Pachai payaru, matki dal]- ½  cup [ [Soaked and boiled]
• Onion – 1[sliced]
• Fried coconut - 2 tbsp
• Green chilli -1 [sliced]
• Ginger and garlic paste / Gigner Garlic grated  -1 tbsp
• Curry leaves - 1 spring
• Clove - 1
• Bay leaf -1
• Green cardamom -1
• Turmeric powder  - 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder  - 1 tsp
• Garam masala powder  - 1 tsp
• Lemon juice - ¼ tsp
• Mint  - 2 to 6 leaves
• Coriander leaves  - 3 to 4 leaves
• Salt to taste
• Oil  - 3 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp

Preparation

• Heat oil and ghee in a pan then add cardamom, cloves, bay leaf and onion sauté till onion turns light brown.
• Add green chilli, ginger and garlic paste sauté gently then add curry leaves sauté well.
• Add boiled green gram, turmeric powder, red chilli powder mix well.
• Add garam masala, and salt mix well till raw smell out.
• Add boiled basmati rice and fried coconut mix well. Cut off heat and add chopped coriander leaves, mint and lemon juice mix well till no white rice remains. Serve hot.