Radish Masala Rice - Radish Fried Rice

Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year! A year of mindful eating and growing your own food :)

If there is one vegetable that you would want to grow in early spring that should be radish. With the shortest growing time of any vegetable, about 6 weeks and you get fresh crunchy radish to enjoy. Fresh radish does not smell and a lot of people told me that they were surprised by the lack of the tell tale signs of radish we know so well.

Radish grows well in cool weather so this is the first spring vegetables that we are lucky to enjoy. When you have an abundance of a good thing you try to come with up ways to use it and thus was born this Radish Masala Rice. I was pleasantly surprised by how good it tasted.

Pretty easy to make, I added ingredients to make the rice flavorful and also keeping in mind that radish is known for its smell I added few of the powdererd whole spices.

Peel the skin and grate the radish using a grater.
Prepare onions, ginger and green chilies. In a wide mouthed pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds and cumin.
Saute the onions and green chilies. Cook rice, fluff and set aside.
Take the whole spices in a coffee grinder and make a powder.
Add grated ginger and saute it and add the turmeric and spice powder. Add in the grated radish.
once the radish is cooked, squeeze in the lime. Add the cooked rice..
Mix the rice into the radish masala well

The masala rice can be served with some potato chips or roasted potatoes.

Radish Masala Rice
Preparation Time:20 minutes
Cooking Time:25 minutes
Ingredients

1. 1 1/2 cups of Basmati or any White grained Rice
2. 1/2 cup chopped shallots or red onions
3. 4-5 green chilies slit (I usually remove the seeds)
4. 1 inch piece of ginger grated
5. 10-12 small radishes (enough to get 2 cups of grated radish)
6. 1 small lime
7. Whole Spices - small piece of cinnamon, few cloves, 1/2 tsp of fennel seeds
8. seasonings : mustard seeds, cumin seeds
9. 1 tsp of turmeric powder
10. 2 tsp oil + 1 tsp
11. salt to taste

Method

1. Cook the rice with some salt and a tsp of oil. Once cooked, cool and fluff it up.
2. While the rice is cooking, peel the radishes and grate it.
3. Using a blender or a coffee grinder blend to a fairly smooth powder. Do not overpower with a strong smell of the garam masala or whole spices.
4. In a wide mouthed pan, heat oil and add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds. When the mustard seeds pop, add the onions and green chilies.
5. When the onions starts to brown a bit, add the grated ginger and saute for a minute.
6. Add in the turmeric powder and mix it into the onions.
7. Add the grated radish and cook till the radish is completely cooked. Add salt.
8. Now add in the powdered whole spices. Mix it in well.
9. Squeeze in the lime juice and cook for half a minute more.
10. Now add the cooked fluffed up rice and mix it so the rice is well coated.

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