Mango Rice
Mango Rice Ingredients:
- Rice – 1 cup
- Grated Raw Mango – 1/4 cup
- Green Chillies – 2
- Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Urad dal / White Lenthils – 1/2 tsp
- Groundnuts / Peanut- 10-15
- Curry leaves – 8-10
- Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
- Asafotida or Hing – 1 pinch
- Coriander leaves / Cilantro
- Coconut grated – 2 tsp
- Salt
- Sugar – 1/4 tsp
- Oil – 3 tsp
How to Make Mango Rice:
1] Cook the 1 cup of Rice with 2-1/4 cup of water in a pressure cooker.
2] Chop Green Chillies and keep them aside.
3] Remove cooked Rice from the pressure cooker; spread the Rice on a dinner plate and leave the Rice to become cool.
Rest of the preparation can be completed in a large or medium sized frying pan.
4] In the frying pan, heat Oil. Add Mustard seeds; once the seeds splutter, add Urad dal. Once the dal ingredients turn golden brown, add Groundnuts and fry for about a minute until the nuts change color.
5] Drop Curry leaves into the pan and fry for a minute more. Add chopped Green Chillies and fry them for a minute.
6] Now add grated Raw Mango, Turmeric powder, Hing and fry until the grated Mango is cooked. At this stage add Salt and Sugar and mix well.
Mango Rice Preparation
7] Now add cooked Rice and and mix well. Add grated Coconut and mix well.
8] Garnish with Coriander leaves.
Mango Rice is now ready to serve.
Dear Hema,
i read your mango rice recipe. I’ve tried adding roasted and powdered methi seed (1/4 spoon) to it while mixing. It tastes even more great!!
Rashmi – Nice tip! Thanks for letting us know
Nice recipe!! Tasted really good.