Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 3

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup rice (I have used sona masuri)
2. 1 cup grated coconut
3. 2 - 4 red chilli
4. 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
5. 1 small lemon sized jaggery
6. 1 gooseberry sized tamarind
7. Salt as per your taste

Ingredients for tempering:

1. 1 red chilli
2. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
3. 2 tbsp ground nut
4. 1 tsp urad dal
5. 1 tsp chana dal or gram dal
6. 4 - 6 curry leaves
7. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
8. 2 tbsp cooking oil (coconut oil preferred)

Instructions for making kayi sasive gojjina chitranna:

1. Cook the rice and keep it aside.
2. Take coconut, red chilli and mustard seeds in a mixer grinder jar.
3. Use required water and grind it into a fine paste. Set it aside.
4. In a wide frying pan heat oil and fry the peanuts.
5. Once done, add in mustrad seeds, urad dal, gram dal (chana dal) and red chillies. Fry until mustards splutter and dals turn brown.
6. Next add in turmeric powder, asafoetida and curry leaves. Reduce the flame.
7. Add in salt and jaggery.
8. Also add tamarind extract. Keep it for boiling.
9. Add in ground masala. Mix well and bring it to boil.
10. Adjust the salt, sweet and sour level. Switch off the stove.
11. Add in cooked rice and mi it well. Serve it and enjoy.

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