Curd Rice

This recipe of curd rice with grapes, oranges, pomegranate and onions makes it look colourful and enhance the taste.

Ingredients :

• Rice -2 cups cooked
• Plain -Yoghurt 4 cups
• Milk -1/2 cup
• Mustard seeds -1/2 tsp
• Seedless Grapes 1/2 cup
• Pomegranate- 1/2 cut
• Tinned Orange pieces -1/2 cup
• Red Onion-1 small chopped
• Few Curry leaves
• Chana dal/Urad dal-2tsps
• Oil or ghee-1 tbsp
• Asafoetida-1 pinch
• Salt to taste
• Coriander leaves for garnishing
• Green chillies -2
  

Preparation:

1. Cool the cooked rice.
2. Add yoghurt,milk into rice. Mix well. If it's not sufficient then you can put some more yoghurt depending on your liking. Add salt.
3. Chop grapes and the orange into fine pieces .Remove the seeds from pomegranate. Chop the onion finely.Mix all of these to the curd rice mixture.
4. Heat 1 tsp oil/ghee in a pan and put mustard seeds , green chilies (cut into small pieces),curry leaves ,asafoetida and the chana/urad dal.When the seeds pop, remove from heat and add them to the above curd-rice mix.
5. Garnish with green coriander leaves.
6. Put in the referigerator to chill for about an hour.
   

Gotchas:

If you leave the dish for 2-3 hours then the rice might soak all the yoghurt and it becomes dry. So you can put some more yogurt or milk.