Garlic Rice / Poondu Saadam / Lunch Box Recipes / Variety Rice Recipes

Do you love garlic? Then this is a must-try recipe. Today I'm going to share one of the south Indian variety rice recipe called Garlic rice / Poondu Saadam. This is very tasty and flavourful rice. If you have any leftover rice then make use of it and pack a quick lunch.

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Ingredients

• 2 cups of cooked rice
• 8 or 9 cloves of Garlic
• 3 Dry Red Chillies
• 1/3 cup of grated Coconut
• 2 tbsp of Oil
• 1 tsp  Mustard seeds
• 1 tsp Urad dhal
• Few Curry leaves
• Salt to taste

Method

• Heat 1 tbsp of oil in wok/ kadai, when hot add the garlic and dry red chillies and fry for a minute. Then add the grated coconut and fry for 1 minute. Do not burn the coconut. Even you can switch off the stove and roast the coconut in the kadai.

• Allow it cool and grind the mixture coarsely in a mixie or a food processor and keep it aside.

• Heat the remaining oil in the same kadai/wok, when hot add mustard seeds and urad dal and allow it to splutter. And then add curry leaves to it. 

• Now add coconut garlic mixture and salt to it and saute for 2 minutes. Then add the rice to it and mix well, so that rice and garlic mixture combine together.

• Serve with potato fry or your favourite side dish.

  Notes

• If you don't have any cooked or leftover rice.. cook them and allow it to cool and proceed the recipe. Do not use the hot rice for this recipe.
• If the garlic cloves are big then reduce it to 5.
• If you feel spicy, you can reduce the chillies too.
• you can substitute dry coconut powder in the place of fresh coconut. 
• Also you can prepare the coconut garlic mixture in advance and store it in a container in the fridge. Whenever you have any leftover rice, you can prepare this garlic rice easily.

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