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

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1/2 cup rice (I used sona masuri)
2. 2 tbsp cooking oil
3. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
4. 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
5. 1 tsp urad dal
6. 1 tsp bengal gram dal or chana dal
7. 2 tbsp cashews (or peanuts)
8. 1 onion finely chopped
9. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
10. 1 - 2 tsp lemon juice
11. Salt as per your taste
12. 1/2 tsp sugar

Ingredients for grinding: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 2 - 3 green chilies
2. 1 handful coriander leaves
3. Small piece ginger
4. 2 tbsp coconut

Instructions for making coriander rice recipe:

1. To begin with cook the rice and keep it aside.
2. Next take coriander leaves, coconut, ginger and green chillies in a mixie jar.
3. Grind until fine paste by adding required water. Keep it aside.
4. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a frying pan. Prepare tempering with mustard, cumin, gram dal, urad dal and cashews.
5. Wait until mustard seeds splutter. Add in finely chopped onion and fry until soft.
6. Reduce the flame and add in ground paste.
7. Add in salt.
8. Add in sugar. Adding little sugar enhances the taste and helps to retain the green colour.
9. Add in turmeric powder.
10. Give quick mix and boil it for a minute.
11. Add in cooked rice. Give a good mix and switch off the stove.
12. Optionally you can add some lemon juice. Coriander rice tastes good with or without lemon juice.
13. Serve it as a breakfast or pack it for the lunch box. This is a very healthy, easy and tasty rice bath recipe.

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