Mixed Vegetable Masala Bhath

Ingredients:

1 cup rice
1/4 cup red gram dal
Vegetables like potatoes, carrot, beans, peas, capsicum, brinjal, drum sticks chopped into long pieces
A small lemon size tamarind
Salt as per taste
2 tsp oil
Some curry leaves
1/2tsp turmeric powder
Few cashews
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp blackgram dal
1/2 tsp bengalgram dal

Masala paste-

2 green chillies
2 Red chillies
4 tbsp grated coconut
2 tsp cumin seeds

Method:

Cook the rice and dal together. Heat oil, add mustard seeds, bengalgram dal and blackgram dal. When it splutters, add curry leaves, cashews and vegetables and cook for some time till soft. Add the masala to it and fry well for five to ten minutes.

Add tamarind water, salt, turmeric and the cooked rice and dal. Mix well.

Serve hot with a bit of ghee, chips or raita.

Quick Tomato Rice

Ingredients:

Cooked Rice- 1 cup

Tomatoes- 4 (Medium sized)
Onions -1 chopped

Green Chillies- 1(slit in-between)

Oil- 1-2 spoons

Mustard seeds-1/2 spoon

Udad Dal- 1/2 spoon

Chana Dal-1/2 spoon

Asafotedia

Chilly powder-as per taste

Coriander leaves- 1-2 spoons (finely chopped)

Salt to taste.

Method:

Grind the tomatoes to a fine paste in the blender. Heat a spoon of oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds. When mustard seeds splutter, add both the dals and green chilly and fry and add asafotedia. Add onions and fry for 2 mins. Add the tomato paste and salt to taste. Let the paste cook for some time till the raw smell disappears. By this time, the paste would have turned thick and become bright red in colour. Add chilly powder if required. Cool the paste.

Spread the cooked rice on a plate and add a spoon of oil to the rice and mix well. Add salt as per the quantity of rice. Next mix in the tomato paste and adjust the salt/spicy flavors. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve.