Masala bhat.. My style

Keep already steamed rice ready and start chopping down a small onion, few green chillies and a small tomato, along with curry leaves.

Now heat the kadai, pour oil, add mustard, cumin seeds, onion, green chilli and fry. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder(optional), salt and little garam masala. Mix well and add tomato pieces. Let it cook for few minutes and add the rice to it and mix well, turning the flame to high. Keep on mixing it well until you turn off the burner.

Garnish with Coriander leaves and also can squeeze few drops of lemon on the rice and cover it with a lid, until you serve. This will smell wonderful when you open the lid just before serving.

Egg Rice... My style...

I experimented this way and it turned out really well....

First steam the rice with required quantity water, salt and soya sauce. when done keep it aside.

Now heat the deep pan add oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, onions, ginger garlic paste wait till the flavor of the ginger and garlic changes and then add green chilli sauce, tomato sauce, chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt, garam masala and mix well... can even add little water to it to avoid more oil (i did). Now when its mixed well and starts boiling, break the eggs into it and start mixing immediately. once mixed well with the remaining ingredients, add already prepared rice and mix well. Rice should be added when the egg content still remains liquidy so that it spreads well with the rice and keep mixing well till eggs are nicely cooked along with the rice. You will come to know its done with its raising flavor itself.

I have blended the recipe for egg fried rice and egg biryani together so calling it as Egg rice.. lol

Jeera Rice

I am sure many people dont know about this simple yet yummy rice variety, coz i hadn't even heard about it before coming to Pune. So here goes my first recipe in the blog.

Boil the rice as usual. I use 1:1 ratio of rice and water to boil the rice. Let it cool down or we can also use leftover rice from the previous cooking. Heat the kadai (Pan). Add 2 tbs cooking oil, 1 tsp ghee (clarified butter). Add  Jeera (Cumin seeds), green chilli, fried onions and curry leaves (optional), salt and saute for few seconds. Add the rice and keep mixing the rice, so as to avoid sticking of rice to the pan. Do this till you find all the ingredients have mixed properly with the rice and also you can smell the favour now.

Can serve Jeera rice with dhal (boiled cereals), any gravy and also few like to have it with tomato ketup.