Cucumber & Carrot Curd Rice Recipe / Curd Rice Recipe / Cucumber Curd Rice Recipe / Carrot Curd Rice RecipeT

Curd rice is one of my favorite, it has natural cooling properties in this which is perfect for hot summer days. This recipe is one step further because it has as much cucumber and carrots like rice. So it is much more cooling and more tasty..

I have two variation of curd rice here. A fruity curd rice and a plain simple curd rice. Perfect sidedish for this curd rice is pickles, but you can even have it with any poriyal..

Preparation Time : 15 mins

Cooking Time : 25 to 30 mins

Serves : 3 to 4

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Homemade Curd / Yogurt - 1 cup

Milk - 2 cup or adjust

Cucumber - 1 cup grated

Carrot - 1 cup grated

Green Chilli - 2 chopped finely

Salt to taste

Coriander Leaves a handful finely chopped

For Tempering:

Oil - 1 tsp

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp

Urad Dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 2 tsp

Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - 1/4 tsp

Curry Leaves - 1 sprig

Ginger - 1 tblspn finely chopped

Method:

Take rice in a pressure cooker, add in 4 cups of water, cook it for 5 whistle. Simmer for 5 mins and turn off the stove, let the pressure go all by itself. Open the cooker and mash it up with a spoon. Let the rice get to room temp.

Now add in salt, curd and milk to the rice and mix well.

Add in cucumber, carrot and green chilli and mix well.

Now make tempering by heating oil and crackling all the spices and ginger. Let them get golden. Pour this over the rice and mix well.

Add in coriander leaves and mix well. Put it in the fridge for 1 hour.

Serve with pickle.

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