Celebrate sweets-sweets with rice- brown rice pongal reposted

I made this yesterday, cos Yashi completed 7 months. It was our way of celebration!

The recipe I followed is here- brown rice pongal

I am sending this to the event hosted by Priya of easy n tasty recipes

Also check Nivedita's original announcement page

Pudina Brown Rice

We love pudina rice :) Niket enjoys it. I have this recipe from my friend and colleague, Lakshmi. I followed my old recipe, I just used brown rice instead of white.

Ingredients-
2 cups brown / white rice- cooked
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 Chopped onion
1/2 cup fresh pudina =mint (ground or cut, I used cut leaves)
2 Chopped Tomatoes and green chillies as per taste
Salt, haldi, oil or ghee

Directions

Heat oil and add mustard seeds, wait till they splutter.

Fry the chopped onions till golden. Add green chillies and tomatoes and cook till raw smell of tomatoes disappears. Add haldi and salt and cook for a minute. Add pudina / pudina (mint)  paste and cook for another minute. Don't overcook or the flavor of fresh mint will disappear. Add cooked rice and mix well. Add a teaspoon of ghee for flavor. Serve hot. 

This is also going to Herbs and Flowers in my Platter

Brown rice palak khichdi

I have always made palak khichdi with white rice. I saw this page a few days back, about an event with brown rice, Brown Rice for Dinner.
Event details can be viewed here as well.
I have recently discovered Navadarshanam products available at all Namdhari stores in Bangalore. Check them out! Their brown rice is especially good. I started using it for all my kheer/ payasams. Then I thought I could even use it for Paalak Khichdi. I have followed the same recipe as I have posted before but with brown rice.

This is my recipe-
Ingredients-
1 cut onion
1 chopped tomato
ginger garlic paste as per taste
boiled and pureed spinach - 1.5 cups for 1 cup brown rice (I didnt puree it, just mashed it with a potato masher)
1 cup brown rice soaked for an hour and cooked with 2 cups water)
ghee as per taste
1 cup water / milk
oil for cooking



Directions-
Heat oil in  a pan. Sauté onions till translucent. Add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a minute. Add tomatoes and cook till done. Add spinach puree and salt as per taste. Add the boiled brown rice and milk/water (I prefer water, can't imagine making khichdi with milk, yuck). Cook covered and stir in between for 3-5 mins. Take off from stove and add ghee if desired. Serve hot :) Accompaniment- curd and dal / curd rice- slurp! (I am a Bihari transformed into South Indian!)

I boiled 2 cups brown rice, saved some to mix with barley and made barley kheer, and saved some to make curd rice.

Curd rice with brown rice is also good. Once the cooked rice is cool, add curd and a bit of water (I like it a bit runny). Let it soak for half an hour or so. Heat 1 tsp oil, add mustard seeds and cut curry leaves, let the seeds splutter and add to curd rice mix. Add salt to taste and serve.

brown rice pongal

Another thing that I tried today, since it was Makar sankranti is pongal total south indian style! The recipe-

Brown rice pongal

Ingredients:
1/2 cup brown rice
1/4 cup moong dal


Roast the moong dal and when color changes, add the cleaned and washed brown rice. add one cup water and pressure cook for one whistle. let cooker stand till cool. by this time it is half cooked.

1 litre milk
bring it to a boil, add the pressure cooked rice and dal. cook till mixture thickens and it gets a darker color with the thickening of milk. take it off from gas.

Now all you need is-
some cashews and raisins, added some chironji too
1 tbsp ghee
jaggery as per taste

Split and crush cashews, fry in some ghee, wash the raisins. add to pongal along with jaggery. heat and add the remaining ghee. your pongal is ready!