Fusion Chitranna !

Fusion Chitranna

Ingredients (Serves 2)

• Rice – 1 cup (washed & soaked)
• Peanuts – ½ a cup
• Capsicum – 1 cup diced
• Paneer – ½ cup cut into cubes.
• Channa Dal – 1 tsp
• Urad Dal – 1 tsp
• Hing – A small pinch
• Turmeric – A small pinch
• Pepper Corns – A few
• Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
• Jeera – 1 tbsp
• Ghee – 1 tsp
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Cinnamon - 1 piece
• Green Chilies – 2
• Amchur Power – 1 tsp
• Salt to taste

Method

• Take a pan add Ghee, to this add Jeera and Cinnamon.
• Add soaked rice and fry. Add water and Pressure-cook the rice. Ensure is not overcooked and sticky, cool cooked rice and keep aside.
• Take a pan and add oil and heat.
• Make Vaggarane (tadaka) of Hing (Asafetida), Mustard Seeds, Urad Dal, Channa Dal & Pepper until Mustard Seeds splutter.
• To this add peanuts and roast (adding Cashews at this stage enhances taste)
• To this mixture add sliced Green Chilies.
• Now add Capsicum and stir fry. Add Salt. Add Paneer and mildly stir so that you don’t break the paneer. Keep this mixture aside. Add Amchur to add a zing of sourness.
• Add the mixture to cooled rice and mix.
• Your Fusion Chitranna is ready.

I call this ‘Fusion’ as the ingredients are a blend of North Indian Style Fried rice mixed with the key ingredients of South Indian chitraanna (mixed/coloured rice).

Fusion Chitranna packed for lunch !