Curd Rice Recipe (South Indian Thayir Sadam)
Author: Gopi Patel
Recipe type: Rice
Cuisine: South Indian
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Serves: 2
- Rice : 1/2 cup, uncooked
- Water : 1 1/2 cups or as required
- Curd : 1 cup
- Salt : 1 tsp
- OIl : 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds (rai) : 1 tsp
- Asafoetida (hing) : 1/4 tsp
- Green chilies (hari mirch) : 1 piece finely chopped
- Ginger (adrakh) : 1/2 tsp paste
- Urad dal : 1 tbsp
- Curry leaves (kadi patta) : 6 pieces
- Rinse the rice thoroughly in water alteast 4-5 times. Soak the rice in water for 10 minutes.
- Take the rice in a pan or kadhai and add 2-3 times water. Heat the pan and let water comes to boil once.
- Cover the pan with lid and let the rice gets boiled for 5-7 minutes. Check the water level in occasionally and add water if required.
- Check if rice is cooked properly by pressing few rice strands between fingers.
- Once cooked, strain the excess water from rice using a strainer.
- Take the boiled rice in a bigger bowl and add yogurt. Mix well.
- Add finely chopped green chilies and coriander leaves (hara dhaniya). Combine well all the ingredients.
- Heat a tbsp of oil in a tadka pan or a small pan.
- Once the oil is hot add dry red chili and sauté for few seconds.
- Add cumins seeds and sauté until they turn brown.
- Now add white lentil (urad dal) and let the dal turns golden in color.
- Add few curry leaves (kadi patta) in oil and sauté for sometime.
- Also add ginger paste and let the ginger gets cooked in oil for 20-30 seconds.
- Tadka for curd rice is ready. Pour the tadka on curd rice and mix it well.
- Curd rice is ready to serve. Serve the south indian curd rice with pickle, papad or applam.
Recipe by WeRecipes at https://werecipes.com/curd-rice-recipe-thayir-sadam/
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