Indian Carrot Rice

Ingredients :  

2 cup rice
2 onion
5 carrot
2 tsp fried groundnuts
2 tsp oil
a small piece of cinnamon
1 tsp broken block gram
2 nos cloves
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp bengal gram
a few sprigs curry leaves
Salt as per taste

For Masala: 
1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
3/4 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp grated coconut
4 nos red chillies


Method : 

Heat the pan, pour the 1 tsp oil. Add red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and fry till it turns brown.

Add grated coconuts and remove from the heat. Grind it after it cools down.

Grind seperately, the fried groundnuts coarsely.

Cook the rice and let it cool.

Put the carrots in warm water. Grate it without peeling the skin.

Heat oil in a pan. Add cloves, cinnamon, mustard, broken block gram and Bengal gram. Fry them.

Add curry leaves and chopped onions. Once the onion is cooked, add the grated carrots. Fry till the carrots are cooked.

Add rice and fry in a low flame. Add salt and the ground masala powder. Mix it well with the rice.

Finally add groundnut powder and remove from the flame. Serve hot.