Mint Rice Recipe | Pudina Sadam Recipe

Mint rice is a healthiest and tastiest recipe. Mint rice can be easily served for lunch. Detailed step by step photo below

Ingredients:

2 Handful Mint(Pudina)

2 Green chilies

2 Garlic cloves

1 Piece Ginger

1 piece Tamarind

2 Cup cooked rice

To Tempering

1 tblsp cooking oil

2 Dry chilies

1 tsp Mustard seeds

1 tsp Urad dal

15 Cashew nuts

Method:

1.       Heat a pan add mint leaves, sauté them till gets shrink on low heat

2.      Transfer fried mint, garlic, green chilies, ginger and tamarind, grind them as smooth paste and keep aside

3.      Heat a pan add cooking oil and mustard seeds, when mustard seeds crackle add dry chilies, urad dal and curry leaves. Sauté for a minutes

4.      Add cashew nuts and fry till turns golden brown

5.      Add Grinded mint paste and sauté for a minutes

6.      Add cooked rice and mix well

7.      Serve mint rice with potato fry or vazhakai varuval(raw banana fry)

Pictorial:

Heat a pan add mint leaves

Saute them till gets shrink

Transfer mint leaves, green chilies, ginger, garlic and tamarind to the mixi jar

Grind them as fine paste

In a pan add cooking oil and mustard seeds, when mustard seeds crackle add dry chilies, urad dal and curry leaves. Sauté for a minutes

Add cashew nuts 

Fry till cashews turns golden brown

Add Grinded mint paste

Saute till mint paste raw smell disappear

Add Cooked rice

Mix well

Serve mint rice with potato fry or vazhakai varuval(raw banana fry)