Here's the recipe from Sameera.
Ingredients:
2 cups rice
1 lemon or lemon concentrate
5-6 red chilli
2-3 green chilli (can avoid this)
peanuts (groundnuts)
chana dal
urad dal
curry leaves
1/4 spoon of turmeric
1/4th cup of oil (reduce it if you don't like it oily)
salt
Procedure:
Cook rice separately. On side toast peanuts in a little bit of oil (a teaspoon), followed by chana dal and then urad dal. All these have to be toasted separately as each take different times.(Note: just wait till you see some color on them). Urad dal gets burned fast so be careful. Peanuts may take a little longer than all.
Cut green chillies length wise and remove seeds. That removes most of heat. Now lightly roast curry leaves and green chilli followed by red chillies (takes just 1 min or so).
Take cooked rice in a bowl and add some oil. Mix turmeric powder and everything else to it. Now add salt (to taste). Cut lemon and squeeze lemon juice. For my taste, the whole lemon was good. Adjust according to your taste. Mix everything well.
Quick recipe, as in 15 -20 min, its ready on your plate.
Have it with yogurt or plain.
Time saver: keep rice in rice cooker and start working on other things. By the time rice is ready all the ingredients to be added are ready. All U have to do then is mix them well.
This is a real ,easy and quick recipe-under 30 minutes is sent by one of the best cooks I know, Madhuli.What you need:
4 Medium sized Potatoes
1 tsp cumene powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp amchur powder (dry mango powder)
1 tsp dry red chilli powder
salt as per taste
For the tadka (tempering):
½ tsp mustard seeds
½ tsp Cumene seeds
¼ tsp turmeric powder
2tsp oil
How to proceed:
Wash the potatoes thoroughly; you can use a little warm water to clean them. Do not peel the potatoes. Cut them into small ,thin round slices.
In a pan heat oil. Add mustard seeds. Add cumene seeds once the mustard seeds crackle. Add turmeric powder and then add the sliced potatoes. Stir nicely and fry for a few minutes. Add the Cumene powder, coriander powder,Red chilli powder and salt. Stir once again. Cover and cook on low flame for 5 minutes or till the potatoes are done. Sprinkle the amchur powder. You can substitute lemon juice for Amchur powder.
This delicious curry goes well with Rotis or Bread or you can eat it just like that as a snack.
