Black Pepper Rice is an instant recipe cooked with lots of pepper powder along with other spices with either freshly cooked rice or left over cooked rice.
It is very easy to make.
Hot and Spicy Pepper Rice can be served with any stir fried vegetables
Ingredients:
1 tbsp – Chana Daal (Split Chick Pea)
2 tbsp – UradDaal (Split Black Gram)
½ tsp – Kali Mirch (Black Pepper Corns)
1 – Dried Red Chilli, split into two pieces
15 – Curry Leaves
1 tsp – Til (Sesame Seeds)
1 tbsp – Ghee (Clarified Butter)
1 tsp – Jeera (CuminSeeds)
12 – Kaju (Cashew Nuts), halved
A pinch – Hing (Asafoetida)
2 cups – Rice
½ tsp – Salt (or as per taste)
Procedure:
Heat a pan and add Chana Daal, UradDaal, Black Pepper Corns, Dried Red Chilli,Curry Leaves.
Dry Roast until light brown and aromatic.
Then add Sesame seeds until all are nice and golden brown.
Remove it into a plate and let it cool down. Grind to a coarse powder.
Now heat a bigger pan and add Clarified Butter. When the Clarified Butter heats up add Cumin seeds.
As soon as the Cumin seeds sizzle add Kaju and roast until golden brown. And then add curry leaves and Hing and roast for few seconds
Now add cooked rice, salt and half of the ground mix. Do not add all the ground mixture as it may be too spicy. Check the spice level and add more if required. Mix well until all the spices are mixed well.
This is now ready to serve. Serve it hot with any stir-fried vegetables. 😊
Tips:
1. Sesame seeds roast faster. So, add them at the end so they don’t get burnt.
2. To get fluffy rice always soak rice for at least 20 mins and then add1 ½ cup
water for 1 cup rice andcook. Once cooked, remove it into a plate and cool.
