Carrot Rice Recipe - Carrot Sadam Recipe

Carrot rice is a colorful variety rice recipe for lunch and also suitable recipe for lunchbox for both kids and office goers. Here is this recipe with step by step procedure with pictures. 

Carrot rice can be prepared in very less time and also it tastes great. As it is prepared in less time it becomes idle for lunchbox. We usually have this with some chips, with potato fry and also it goes very well with curd rice. When we want a change for lunch we usually have a combination of carrot rice, curd rice, potato fry and pickle. In our home everyone like this combination.

There are so many variation we can make from this carrot rice. You can make it less spicy or can spice it up. Here at the end of the post I will discuss regarding the variations. In the procedure I will be explaining the method I mostly follow in my home.

Ingredients for Carrot Rice: Rice cooked – 1 cup Carrots – ¾ cup grated Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp Split urad dal – 1 tsp Channa dal / Kadala paruppu – 1 tsp Small onions – 5 to 6 nos chopped Green Chilli – 1 finely chopped Cinnamon stick – 1 inch Cloves – 2 nos Curry leaves few Cashew Nut – few Lemon juice – from ½ lemon (optional) Salt to taste Coriander leaves finely chopped

Method:

• Cook the rice and keep it aside.
• Grate the carrot by peeling the skin off.
• Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds and allow to splutter, add channa dal, urad dal and allow to slightly brown. 
• Add cashew nuts and allow to slightly brown.
  
• Add cinnamon stick and cloves.
• Add green chilli, curry leaves, onions and saute for a minute.
• Add grated carrot and allow to cook until raw smell goes. (If you adding 1/2 tsp chilli powder or 1/2 tsp or less garam masala add at this stage and mix well and cook until all the ingredients are incorporated)
  
• After carrots gets cooked add it to the cooked rice and mix well.
• Add chopped coriander leaves.
• If your adding lemon juice add  to it after it is cooled and mix well.
  

Serving suggestions:

• With chips, curd rice and pickle for lunch. Mixing both curd rice and carrot rice will taste great.
• As a variety rice for lunch along with rasam, curd and rice along potato fry.
• Lunch box item for kids and office goers.
  

Variations:

There are so many variations which you can make with this recipe. I had explained few variations in the above procedure.  I am again giving it here as points for your better understanding.

• You can add green chilli ginger garlic paste.
• You can add garam masala.
• You can add sambar powder. (That time you can avoid garam masala)
• You can also add 1/2 tsp coriander powder.
• You can avoid garam masala when you adding cinnamon sticks and cloves or you can add all three.
• I usually like to add more kadala paruppu while tempering because everyone in my home like that crunchiness it gives to this rice.
• You can also add roasted peanuts to the rice.
• You can add lemon juice at the last after rice is cooled if you like little tangyness.
• This can be prepared with leftover rice.