Ingredients for curd rice
Rice (soaked) - 1 cup (200 gms)
Curd - 2 cups
Oil - 2 tbsp
Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
Urad Dal - 1 tsp
Split chickpeas - 1 tsp
Dry red chilli - 2 to 3
Green chilli (chopped) - 2 to 3
Curry leaves - 10 to 15
Salt - 1 tsp
How to make curd rice
1- Take a cup of rice, clean it, wash it and soak in the water for 20 minutes.
2- After 20 minutes, remove the extra water from it and add in the pressure cooker.
3- Add the 2.5 cups of water to it and close lid of the cooker.
4- Cook rice until the first whistle blows.
5- After the first whistle has blown, turn the flame to low.
6- Cook it for more 2 minutes on low flame.
7- Switch off the flame after 2 minutes.
8- Wait until pressure from the cooker releases.
9- Open lid of the cooker after releasing its pressure.
10- Remove the cooked rice in a separate bowl and let it cool down.
11- After cooling down the rice, add 2 cups of fresh curd to it and mix them well.
12- Add a teaspoon of salt to it and stir to dissolve its lumps.
For the tempering
1- Preheat a tempering pan, add 2 tablespoons of oil in it and heat it.
2- Add a 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds, a 1/2 teaspoon of cumin seeds, a teaspoon of split Chickpeas followed by a teaspoon of Urad Dal in the heated oil.
3- Saute the ingredients until they become brown and in between of process, add 2 to 3 chopped green chillies to it.
4- Add 3 dry red chillies too and roast all the ingredients together.
5- After roasting them, add 10-12 curry leaves to it and saute them.
6- Switch off the flame and spread the tempering on curd rice.
7- The curd rice is ready to be served.