Yellow Fried Rice with peas

Friday, January 9, 2009

I was in hurry today but need to make something for lunch very quick and made this very simple rice with peas and great blend of spices. It is very very easy to make, delicious & packed with flavors. I was able to wrap up in 5 mins and kept in rice cooker which got cooked by the time I got ready to work.

Ingredients:

* 1 cup basmati rice
* 1/2 cup green peas ( I used frozen peas)
* 2 cups water
* 1 Tablespoon Oil ( I used Ghee to get nice aroma)
* salt to taste

Spices

* Pinch of asafetida
* 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
* 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
* 4 whole red chilies
* 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
* 2 bay leaves
* 5 to 6 cloves
* About 1 inch piece of cinnamon stick
Method

1) Wash the rice, drainand keep aside.(if you have time it is better to soak rice for 15 mins to 30 mins)

2) Heat Oil (or Ghee) in a pan and splutter cumin and mustard seeds. Add all the remaining spices and fry for 30 seconds or less then add green peas and salt and fry for 2 mins

3) Add rice and fry for another minute and then add water and cook until rice is cooked. I used rice cooker to cook this since i did not have time to monitor pressure cooker or to cook directly in the same vessel.

This goes well with Raitha (perugu pachadi) but I just packed lunch with plain Yogurt :-)

Notes:

you can use vegetables like beans, carrot etc along with peas.