South Indian Style Vegetable Rice Recipe

Name: South Indian Style Vegetable Rice Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 2 Cups Cooked Rice (1 Cup - 250ml); ¼ Cup Carrot (Chopped); ¼ Cup Green Capsicum (Chopped); ¼ Cup Beans (Chopped); ¼ Cup Potato (Chopped); ¼ Cup Cauliflower Florets (Chopped); ¼ Cup Green Peas; 1 Onion (Chopped); 2 tsp Salt (Adjust as needed); 1 tsp Oil; 2 tsp Split Bengal Gram (Channa Dal / Kadalaparuppu); 2 tsp Urad Dal; 2 tsp Coriander seeds; 3 Red Chili; 1 tbsp Peanuts; 1 tsp Peppercorns; 3 tbsp Oil; 1 tsp Mustard seeds; Few Curry

Posted on Feb 23rd, 2021

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

Categories:

Rice varieties

2.84 from 6 votes

Vegetable rice a simple and easy to make rice variety. This rice has a balance of nutrients along with rice and vegetables making it more delicious and healthy. Unlike our conventional veg fried rice or veg pulao, this vegetable rice is unique because of the freshly ground spice mix added to this rice. The spice powder adds a distinct flavor to this rice.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

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South Indian Style Vegetable Rice is a very healthy and easy to make rice variety without much masala ingredients. Very unique in taste and quick to make for Kids lunch box. Unlike our conventional veg fried rice or veg pulao, this vegetable rice is unique because of the freshly ground spice mix added to this rice. The spice powder adds a distinct flavor to this rice. Onion and mixed vegetables are sautéed and tossed with freshly ground spice powder and cooked rice to get this delicious Vegetable Rice. We can make this vegetable rice with freshly cooked rice or with left over rice. This vegetable rice has perfect balance of nutrients making it a perfect healthy rice.

Tips for making Vegetable Rice:

We use cooked rice for this rice. We can use freshly cooked rice. Just spread the cooked rice in a broad plate so the rice is fluffy without sticking to each other.
Adding salt while the veggies are getting cooked, helps to bring out the moisture making the vegetables to cook faster without any water.
Adding peanuts to the grinding ingredients is optional. If you are allergic to nuts, exclude peanuts.
Coarsely grind the spice powder. It adds more flavor than grinding it to smooth powder.
Do not over cook the vegetables. A little crunchiness to be retained.
While mixing rice with vegetables and spice powder, gently mix so that the rice doesn’t get mushy.

If you like this Vegetable Rice, then you can also try other Rice Vaieties

Brinji Rice – Brinji Rice, an aroma rich with healthy veggies. The flavour of bayleaf along with other masala ingredients gives this rice a rich flavour. A perfect dish for parties.
Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice – Chinese Vegetable fried rice is rich of healthy vegetables with wonderful flavor of soy and chili sauce. A very mild rice variety to treat our taste buds! Relish this Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice with Gobi Manchurian or Vegetable Manchurian.
Ghee Rice – Ghee rice, also referred popularly as Nei Soru in tamil is a very mild, yet delicious rice variety. Its a pulao with mild spices flavored with ghee. Quick, easy to make perfect one-pot rice variety!