Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 3

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 handful tender cluster beans or gorikayi
2. 1 cup sona masuri or any high quality rice
3. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
4. 2 tsp gram dal or chana dal
5. 2 tsp urad dal
6. 5 - 6 cashews or 2 tbsp ground nuts
7. 2 tbsp fresh green peas (optional)
8. 1/2 capsicum chopped (optional)
9. 5 - 6 curry leaves
10. 1 gooseberry sized tamarind
11. 3 - 4 tsp vangi bath powder
12. 2 tbsp dessicated coconut (if not added in the powder)
13. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
14. 1 gooseberry sized jaggery
15. Salt as per your taste
16. 8 tsp cooking oil

Instructions for making gorikayi rice bath:

1. To prepare gorikayi rice bath, first cook the rice and set it aside.
2. Try to use tender cluster beans for better taste.
3. Wash, discard the ends and cut the cluster beans into 1 " pieces.
4. Take a oil in a frying pan and heat it. Add in mustard seeds, gram dal, urad dal and cashews.
5. Fry until mustard seed splutters and dals turn brown in colour. But do not burn them. Add in curry leaves and reduce the flame.
6. Add in fresh green peas and chopped capsicum. Fry for a minute. Please note these two are optional ingredients.
7. Add in cluster beans pieces. Fry the cluster beans for 1 minute under high flame.
8. Add in turmeric powder and fry for 2 more minutes under medium flame.
9. Add in salt and jaggery.
10. Add in tamarind juice extracted from one gooseberry sized tamarind. Add in little water.
11. Cover and cook the cluster beans until soft under low flame.
12. Now add in 3 - 4 tsp of vangi bath powder. I have added coconut in the vangi bath powder itself. If coconut is not added in the vangi bath powder, then add it now.
13. Fry for 2 more minutes and switch off the stove.
14. Add in cooked rice.
15. Mix well using a flat spatula. Serve it with raita or curd rice.

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