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Mint is my favorite flavouring to food..They somehow make food so fresh and flavourful.Talking about flavours, these rice is packed with lots of flavours and this is one of my favorite. I made a mint masala paste and mixed it with rice. The tempering which goes in this paste makes the difference..They make this rice unique and flavourful..

I hope you will like this recipe and let me know what you think..

Ingrediants:

Rice – 3 cups Cooked and Cooled

For Grinding:

Mint Leaves / Pudhina – 2 cup tightly packed

Coconut – ½ cup

Garlic – 5 cloves

Green Chilli – 3

Salt to taste

Sugar – 1 tsp

For Tempering:

Ghee – 3 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp

Channa Dal / Kadala Paruppu – 1 tblspn

Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu – 1 tblspn

Cashew – 10 piece

Cinnamon / Pattai – 1 small stick

Cardamom / Yelakai – 4

Bay Leaf / Brinji ilai – 1

Method:

Grind all the ingrediants given in the list to a fine paste. Set this aside.

Heat ghee in a pan. Add all the ingrediants given in the list in the given order and sauté for a min till they turn golden.

Add the ground masala and mix well. Cook till oil separates. It will take around 10 mins. Add sugar and mix well. Mint Rice Paste is done.

Add in cooked rice and mix well. Saute for 2 mins.

Serve immediately.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

You will need a bunch of washed fresh mint leaves

rice is cooked and cooled completely

take the grinding ingrediants in a blender

and make into a puree

Temper the ingrediants given in the list in some ghee

till they turn golden

add the pureed masala

cook till they leave the sides of the pan

add a tsp of sugar..This is optional

and mix well..Mint thokku done

add rice

and toss well

Serve