Turmeric rice with yellow lentils, kadhi, and green squash filet sallow fry, with mango pickle.
Very simple to make, a budget recipe, tasty, nutritious, and faster in 40 minutes
Hello, friends here is my meatless Monday's simple dinner.
Making rice:
1/2 cup basmati rice
1/2 cup yellow lentils
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp salt
2.5 cup water.
Wash rice and yellow lentils add salt and turmeric 2.5 cup water and cook from high to medium heat( in the beginning heat has to be high when it starts boiling low down to medium) cook it until becoming soft.
Meanwhile, prepare kadhi and squash.
To make squash filet :
ingredients:
1 green squash medium size
1/2 cup fine semoline
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 spring of thyme
1/4 tsp turmeric.
2 tbsp oil to fry
Wash and slice the squash into a small filet shape.
Sprinkle turmeric and chili powder on it.
Rub salt and thyme leaves on the slices.
Just coat in the semolina and set it in the oiled frying pan.
Fry them turning both sides until the coating gets crispy using little oil.
Here is what the squash filet looks like.
Making kadhi:
ingredients:
2 tbsp gram flour/ Besan/ chickpea flour
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds /jeera
2 pinches of asafoetida.
2 pinch of turmeric
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 red dry chili
1 tsp oil
1/2 clove of garlic (optional)
4-5 curry leaves and 2 springs of fresh coriander (optional)
In the gram flour add salt and turmeric. using sufficient water to make a thin slurry.
Heat oil in a saucepan and add chopped garlic.
Add red dry chili. curry leaves.
then mustard, cumin, and asafoetida in it
When the spice starts smoky and crackle add the slurry and stir constantly to avoid lumps. some more water or can use thin coconut milk 1/2 cup in. cook with stirring on medium heat until the rawness of the flour disappears.
Add chopped coriander at the end.
Enjoying this simple food with homemade mango pickle.
thank you very much.