Preparing Curd Rice: Soaking and Draining the Rice
To begin the recipe curd rice, start by ensuring the rice is clean and ready for cooking. Wash the rice thoroughly and then soak it in about 3 cups of water for at least 15 minutes. This soaking process helps to soften the rice grains, ensuring a creamy texture once cooked. After soaking, drain the water and set the rice aside, ready to be transformed into a delightful dish of curd rice.
Tempering and Stir-Frying: Infusing Flavor into Curd Rice
In a saucepan heated over medium heat, add oil and mustard seeds. Allow the mustard seeds to crackle, releasing their aromatic essence into the oil. Once the seeds crackle, add peanuts to the pan and stir-fry for about a minute until they turn lightly golden brown. This step adds a delightful crunch and nutty flavor to the curd rice, enhancing its overall taste and texture.
Cooking the Rice Mixture: Blending Ingredients for Curd Rice
To create the base for your curd rice, add chopped tomatoes, green chili, turmeric, sambar powder, salt, and cilantro to the saucepan. Cook the mixture until the tomatoes are tender, which typically takes about 2 minutes. These flavorful ingredients infuse the rice with deliciousness, setting the stage for a delectable dish of curd rice.
Simmering and Finalizing: Perfecting the Curd Rice
Once the tomato mixture is cooked, add the soaked and drained rice along with 2 cups of water to the saucepan. Mix everything well and bring it to a boil. Then, lower the heat to low, cover the pan, and let the rice cook for about 18-20 minutes, or until the rice is soft and the water has evaporated. After cooking, gently stir the rice and add the remaining tomatoes, stirring them in gently. Cover the pan once again and let it cook for an additional 2 minutes to ensure all the flavors meld together perfectly.
Serving Curd Rice: Enjoying the Creamy Delight
Once the curd rice is cooked to perfection, it’s time to serve and savor this creamy delight. Serve the curd rice either on its own or accompanied by yogurt for a refreshing and satisfying meal. Whether enjoyed as a main dish or a side, curd rice is sure to delight your taste buds with its creamy texture and flavorful ingredients.
If you loved this how to make curd rice recipe , then you must also check out other variants of Rice: Vegetable Biryani, Masala Khichdi, Chhole Biryani, Quinoa Vegetable Pilaf and Lemon Rice.
What can we serve with this please?
Traditionally with yogurt rice you do not need any think, by itself it is light meal.
This is not mosaranna. For mosaranna we don’t add dal. It is only rice. Vegetables are also not required. Instead you can use pomegranate seeds and grapes. It really tastes good.
It gives me a quick flashback of my childhood days. Curd Rice I used to have daily.
i m a south indian but never know about such dish MoSarana . Which part of south india makes this ? May be they got the name wrong . and its too much modified .
hello, make plain rice, add natural set yogurt and salt to taste. your curd rice is ready to eat. this is a daily diet in certain sect of people in karnataka eaten as the last dish of a meal. mosaru is yogurt and anna is rice in Kannada language. thanks.
Mosaranna is curd rice in Kannada. (Karnataka)
Why does it have to exactly like Mosaranna? It may not be the traditional recipe but This recipe is more healthy. Appreciate it.
Very nice .thank you for modifications to curd rice.In AP,we do not add moong dal.The only Prasad offered to lord Balaji in Tiripati is only curd rice not laddu!
The dish looks very nice! I want to give this a try. Can you use Greek yoghurt for this?
Thanks manjula Ji, now i make daily recipe from your website.
Thanks Mandula! This one is absolutely delicious!! [I made it also]….
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