Carrot Rice Recipe with step by step pictures. Healthy and easy carrot rice made with carrot, spices and cooked rice. Healthy lunch box recipe made using carrots for kids.
Carrot Rice Recipe
This is a simple rice preparation that needs only minutes to make. I means only few minutes. It can be made from start to finish in less than 15 mins and of course you should have your rice cooked readily for this. You can use up left over rice from the previous batch too.
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About Carrot Rice Recipe
Carrot Rice Recipe with step by step pictures. Healthy and easy carrot rice made with carrot, spices and cooked rice. Healthy lunch box recipe made using carrots for kids.
And if your kids are not eating any vegetables then this is the perfect recipe to sneak your carrots in. They will totally love it, because both of my sister loved it. I used ghee as a base for this, but you could use oil if you are in a diet. Ghee will give nice aroma to this.
Ingredients for Carrot Rice Recipe
- Rice – 3 cups cooked (any rice)
- Carrot – 3 medium size grated
- Onion -1 finely chopped
- Curry leaves – 1 spring
- Green Chilli – 2 chopped
- Channa Dal / Kadalai Paruppu – 1 tsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / Jeerakam – 1tsp
- Sesame Seeds / Yellu – 1 tblspn
- Peanuts / Ver kadalai – 1 tblspn
- Dry Red Chilli – 1
- Cinnamon / Pattai – 1 inch piece
- Cardamom / Yelakai - 4
- Salt to taste
- Ghee – 2 tblspn
How to Make Carrot Rice Recipe
- Heat ghee in a kadai. Add mustard, cumin, peanuts, sesame seeds, channa dal, cinnamon, cardamom, dry red chilli. Fry this for a min until they turn golden.
- Now add onions, green chilli and salt and fry for 1 min.
- Add grated carrots and toss well. Stir fry this for 5 mins.
- Add in cooked rice and toss well.
- Serve with any side dish or papad.
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Instructions
- Heat ghee in a kadai. Add mustard, cumin, peanuts, sesame seeds, channa dal, cinnamon, cardamom, dry red chilli. Fry this for a min until they turn golden.
- Now add onions, green chilli and salt and fry for 1 min.
- Add grated carrots and toss well. Stir fry this for 5 mins.
- Add in cooked rice and toss well.
- Serve with any side dish or papad.
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Carrot Rice Recipe Step by Step Pictures
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Prep your veggies |
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| Rice is cooked perfectly..I used basmati |
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| heat ghee |
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| add mustard and cumin |
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| add peanuts and sesame seeds |
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| channa dal |
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| cinnamon and cardamom |
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| dry red chilli |
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| and fry for few minutes |
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| add onion, green chilli and curry leaves |
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| add salt |
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| and fry well |
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| add carrots |
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| and mix well..Cook for 5 mins |
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| add rice and toss well |
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| tossed |
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| Serve |
vaishali sabnani
these look wow!!..I mean I am a grt fan of green chillies...just loving those and ofcourse the tempering is lovely.
faseela
healthy n nutritious rice....
Archana
Wow Aarthi this is beautiful. I love all the colours.
Sharmilee! :)
Looks flavourful and yummy...lovely lunch box idea
Chus (Dae)
Hoy lo hemos comido en casa y está buenísimo. No estoy acostumbrada a tomar mucha zanahoria en mis recetas, pero de esta forma rallada es una delicia. Besos
Preeti Garg
very healthy and rich rice recipe
maha
healthy n cool orange colour rice..i luvd it.....
Bindu
wow.. delicious!!!
Love the step by step pics 🙂
Chef Mireille
nice, colorful rice
Suma Gandlur
I keep it simple but love your version too.
Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi
my daughter would definitely love this for her lunch 🙂
Mano Saminathan
Simple but delicious rice! Nice clicks!!
Rocio Valle Gonzalez
wow!! I love this post! my husband love rice, so... it is perfect to give the white rice another one more chace!! thanx!! hugs from spain!! 🙂
Claudia
Lovely to look at, healthy to eat!
vrinda
Thats a yummy n healthy rice preparation...
Archana Vivek
Very healthy and good one.
Smitha
looks delicious!
Velva
This looks delicious. Simple and healthy too.
Velva
Hema
Adding sesame seeds should have made it more flavorful..
Food, Fun and Life in the Charente
Mmmmm really like the sound of that. Diane
Curry and Comfort
I could eat the entire bowl!! Looks wonderful!
Teena Mary
Great recipe! Simple & Healthy one too!
Plateful
Love this one pot meal idea. Brilliant and delicious!
Plateful
Love this one pot meal idea. Brilliant and delicious!
Plateful
Love this one pot meal idea. Brilliant and delicious!
Biny Anoop
have tried it and loved it
Srivalli
That's neat!
anthony stemke
Thanks for this, I love rice and carrots. The spices are fabulous.
Saraswathi Iyer
Looks delicious.
cookingvarieties
hi aarthi, how are you. great and delicious looking carrot fried rice. mmm must try. have a nice day dear
Indrani
Yummy n healthy rice, love the look of it...
Mélange
A yummy and healthy addition to the lunch box recipes.Completely awesome dear.
Kalpana Sareesh
wow very healthy one during school days my mom makes this often which i hate.. but i am badly missin it..
Kanchana Radhakrishnan
healthy and delicious receipe.
Meena
now this is real cool twist. i too use left over rice at times but use onions garam masala and grated carrot. so it gives color of orange and white. but u made it even better with sesame seeds and dals. shud try it out this way too..
Kaveri
A healthy delicious and colorful rice.
Shanthi
Just looks awesome!!! very nice pics.
jeyashrisuresh
simple and delicious rice
Rujuta
The rice looks great... so colorful...
radha
Will try this one soon. It looks so good
PJ
This is Lil Angels fav rice. Color looks great...
PJ
This is Lil Angels fav rice. Color looks great...
morri
This is a great fried rice, one of my absolute favourites. I already made it several times. The carrots and onions give it such a lovely sweet note.