கொத்தமல்லி சாதம் / Kothamali Sadam / Coriander Rice - Quick Lunch Box Ideas

Welcome Friends to another week of colourful days.. This week I am in for BM and going to do a special theme "Cooking with Alphabets"..I am going to start with the letter 'K' ..So you see recipes starting with the letter L,M,N,O,P,Q in the coming days. I have prepared all my recipes in advance so I can post very relaxingly and calmly without any fuss. 

I made some nice rice recipe which is one of my favorites..It is packed with full of flavour but so easy peasy to make..Infact the cool thing in this is..You can make the masala in bulk and store in freezer..So if you need to pack a quick lunch or make something very fast, take some masala from the freezer warm it in a kadai or microwave and mix rice with that..How easy is that..But it is not hard to make from scratch too, I made this within 15 mins…I made this a month back along with some mint rice..I served it with papad, curd and papad..

I am sending this recipe to Blogging Marathan Day 1 with the theme 'Cooking with Alphabets'. I hope you will love it as much I do and tell me if you tried it..

Ingrediants:

Ghee - 1 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / kaduku - 1 tsp

Channa Dal / Kadalai Paruppu - 1 tblspn

Urad dal / Ulundu - 1 tblspn

Cinnamon - 1 small piece

Cardamom / Yelakai - 3 crushed

Peanuts - 3 tblspn

Rice - 5 cups Cooked ( HOW TO COOK RICE )

For Green Masala:

Coriander leaves / Cilantro - 4 cup packed

Onion - 1 small chopped

Ginger - 1 small piece

Salt to taste

Method:

Grind the given ingrediants to a fine paste.

Heat ghee in  a kadai. Add mustard seeds and allow them to pop.

Add in channa dal, urad dal, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf and mix well.

Add in peanuts and give a stir let the fry till everything is golden and browned evenly.

Now add in the ground masala and cook it for 5 mins till the masala is cooked and ghee separates from that.

Add cooked rice to it and mix well.

Serve hot with raita or poriyal.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

You will need a bunch of fresh coriander leaves..AKA Cilantro

Take the grinding ingrediants in a blender

and make into a fine puree

Heat ghee in a pan. Add mustard in it and let them POP

add channa dal & Urad dal

Now goes Cinnamon & Bay leaf & Cardamom

Now comes my favorite part...Add a good amount of peanuts!!!

and let them fry it the aromatic ghee

now goes the ground green masala

fry them till oil separates from them

like this

add rice to that and toss well

Serve