Carrot is one of the vegetable which kids love to eat. When it comes for eating rice, they make lot of fuss. Considering they getting leaned towards carrot thought of preparing carrot rice or Pulav. This would be a perfect food for lunch box, and thus caters the need of kids and helps moms to cook a healthy food for their kids. Let us see how to prepare this carrot rice…
Carrot Rice / Carrot Pulao
Ingredients:
Grated Carrot – 1 cup
Steamed Rice – 2 cups
Coconut Oil – 2 tbsp
Green Chilli – 1 no
Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp
Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp
Garlic – 6 pods
Garam Masala – 1tbsp
Cashew Nuts – 10 nos
Salt to taste
Making of Carrot Rice / Carrot Pulao –
Preparation
Finely chop the garlic into pieces and slit the green chillies to two equal halves.
Heat a Kadai and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves and wait until they crackle
Add cashew nuts, green chilli, finely chopped garlic and cook for a min.
Add the grated carrot, garam masala, salt and cook until they golden yellow in color.
Add the steamed rice, stir it well and cook for few mins or until the rice becomes dry.
Remove from fire.
Spices getting sauted
with green chillies and cashewnuts
with grated carrot
with garam masala and salt
getting cooked
with Rice
Mixing rice and carrot
Carrot Rice / Carrot Pulao
Serve hot with onion raita or any veg fry. I have served it with spicy green peas fry – Stay tuned for the recipe.
As I have been compiling Diabetic Friendly recipes for my Diabetic Hubby (type -2) from my grand ma, mother and friends, sometimes I too create. But being diabetic is not about omitting sugar, but the it purely depends on the quantity/portion of the food we consume. Being a food blogger, I could never imagine of creating a recipe based with nutrition, calories so and so, but now I would say my dream came true. Yeah, I have been collaborated with Apollo sugar for compiling DIABETIC friendly recipes curated by their Dietician Ms. Madhavi.
As a start, I love to try and share a Non-Veg recipe which I have been suggested by few of my readers –Butter Chicken Gravy. Butter Chicken is a north Indian dish, but loved by everyone right from the kid to the elder. They can be served as lunch, dinner with nan, roti, paratha and fried rice. Because of their richness, they can be served for festivals, guests and simply for our family. Marination takes a main part in this dish, and so margination consumes 3 to 4 hrs and rest of the process is just completed in minutes. Let me share the recipe…
Butter Chicken / Butter Chicken Recipe / How to prepare Butter Chicken – Diabetic Friendly Version
In a bowl, add Kashmiri red chilli powder 1 tsp, lemon juice – 1 tsp, salt and mix it well. Marinate for 15 to 20 mins.
After that, add the ingredients given under the marinate list to the chicken and mix it well. Marinate it for 2 to 3 hrs.
After 2 to 3 hrs, add a tbsp of butter in a grill pan and grill the chicken or tandoor the chicken in microwave.
Cook the chicken only for 90% and remove the chicken from the fire.
Add a heavy bottom vessel or a non-stick vessel, add the leftover butter, add the spices (cardamom, cloves, peppercorns, cinnamon) and wait until they crackle.
Add the leftover ginger paste and garlic paste, cook for a min.
Pour the tomato puree, cook for a min.
Add the kasuri methi or dry fenugreek leaves, cook for few seconds and pour a cup of water.
Add little salt and bring it boil, cover and cook until the butter starts separating from the gravy.
Add the chicken pieces and cook until the gravy thickens and oil floats on the top.
Pour the fresh cream, give a mix and cook for 2 mins.
Remove from fire.
Wtih chilli powder, ginger and garlic paste with salt and lemon juice
With chicken
Getting marianted for 15 to 20 mins
With garam masala, hung curd, mustard oil
Marinated for 2 to 3 hrs
Marinated chicken getting grilled
Marinated chicken getting grilled
Spices geting sauted with butter
with ginger and garlic paste
with tomato puree, chilli powder (basci+kashmiri), sugar, salt
wtih kasoori methi leaves / dry fenugreek leaves
with water
With chicken
covered and getting cooked
with Hung curd
Oil floating on the top
Butter Chicken / Butter Chicken Recipe / How to prepare Butter Chicken – Diabetic Friendly Version
Serve hot with any Indian flat breads or pulav’s or fried rice.
Usually I don’t like to waste food, even when there is excess of food, I like to create them as a new dish which would be loved by the whole family. Not only my kids even it happens with me – I don’t prefer to the leftover food may be from lunch for dinner but instead I create something new with those. Being a food revolution Ambassador, now I have more interest towards creating a new recipe from the leftovers. As everyday there are lakhs of people suffering for food, so say no to wastage of food. #Christmasleftoverrecipes
As a result here comes my Chicken Vermicelli Biryani from the leftover Whole Roasted Chicken and its stock. This goes out well for lunch or dinner along with a simple onion raita. Also it takes just few mins to get cooked, as the chicken and the stock are already cooked. But be carefully only when you infuse the spice powders and salt to dish, as we are making it from leftovers and the leftovers has already got spices and salt infused in them. Let me share the recipe…
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