Capsicam Masala Rice

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Today I am sharing a very quick, favourable, delicious and easy to make one pot dish over weekend ie CAPCICUM MASALA RICE. Once in a while it is good to prepare one pot dishes rather than preparing full stretch of dishes like sambar, curry, chutney etc. I have decided to finish with one item as lunch box option which is capcicum masala rice. I made little changes while preparing this dish to the original of my moms kitchen.

Let us go to prepare capcicum masala rice with single colour capcicum

Ingredients

Rice                                        1 glass (say 100 grams)
Capcicum                                1/2 kg
Cashew nuts                            10 to 12
Turmeric powder
Sugar                                       1 tbsp
Oil
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves for garnish

For Masala Powder

• Dry red chillies                                      5
• Dry coconut                                           2 " piece
• Channa dal                                             1 tbsp
• Urad dal                                                  1 tbsp
• Cinnamom                                               1" piece
• Cloves                                                       2 nos
• Elachi                                                        1
• Daniya                                                        1 tbsp

For tempering

• Oil
• Mustard seeds

How I did it

1. Prepare rice in the usual way and let it cool.
2. Wash capcicum, remove the seeds,cut into cubes and keep aside.
3. Take a wok, add oil, let it heat on medium flame.
4. Fry all ingredients under 'for masala powder' on low flame till dals turns into golden brown.
5. Let them cool to the room temperature and grind into powder.
6. In the same pan add required oil, let it heat.
7. Add mustard seeds, let them pop.
8. Then add Turmeric powder, channa dal and cashew nuts and fry till turns into light little brown.
9. Add chopped capcicum, stir well and cook till capcicum turns into softer.Do not to cook too much retaining the capcicum shape.
10. Finally add salt and prepared garam masala powder.
11. Mix well and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
12. Add cooked rice and mix well.
13. Switch off the stove.
14. Transfer into a bowl and decorate with chopped coriander leaves.
15. Let capcicum masala rice sit for 10 to 15 minutes, so that the flavor mingles well.

See the yummy yummy taste. It goes well with onion raita.

My Note

• You can use left over rice also for this.
• Instead of single color capcicum you can use yellow and red color capcicum.It looks nice to see.
• You can prepare this rice with vegetables like brinjal, potato, methi etc. according to your taste. The ground masala is same.
• Ingredients for masala you are preparing , depends on your taste and spicy level you like.
• If you have Bisi Bele Bath powder at home, you could use that instead of the Masala Powder.