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Carrot Rice Recipe – How to Make Carrot Rice

November 23, 2015 32 Comments

Carrot rice is a quick and easy one-pot meal using rice. When I was about to leave to Hyderabad for 3 weeks, the vegetable tray had an assortment of veggies that were unused. Among them was one carrot, a few green chillies, 2 onions, some okra, 10 beans and so on. I fried the okra and made usili with beans but was stumped on what to do with just one carrot. I could have made a salad but then thought I should probably add it to rice and make it a carrot rice!

Carrot Rice Recipe - How to Make Carrot Rice
This is an easy rice dish that I have seen in many blogs. But most of them use chana dal in it. Since I was feeling plain lazy to soak, grind and all the rest of it, I made a simpler version. It came out quite tasty but next time I think I will try it with the dal and other masala in it. Since carrots add a nice sweetness to the rice dish so I didn’t feel a need to add onions to the carrot rice, but feel free to do so if you wish.

Carrot Rice Recipe - How to Make Carrot Rice
CARROT RICE RECIPE
Serves 2


Ingredients:
Cooked rice – 3 cups
Grated carrots – 1
Green chillies – 3, slit lengthwise
Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
Curry masala or garam masala – 1 tsp
Turmeric – a pinch
Salt – to taste
Oil – 2 tsp

How I Made It:

1. Heat oil and saute carrots and green chillies in turmeric till the carrots become limp (for lack of a better word)

2. Now add the ginger garlic paste, curry masala and salt and fry for a minute or two.

3. Mix in rice and leave on for another 2 minutes.

Serve warm with raita, papad and pickles.See how simple it is? 🙂

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  1. Pooja

    April 1, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    thats wonderful dish .
    you bring our such a nice color to it 🙂 . loved it.
    thanks for your nice entry Nags.
    hugs.
    -Pooja

    Reply
  2. Pooja

    August 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    thats wonderful dish .
    you bring our such a nice color to it 🙂 . loved it.
    thanks for your nice entry Nags.
    hugs.
    -Pooja

    Reply
  3. Anonymous

    August 7, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    will try this tomo

    Reply
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  5. Rajani

    August 6, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    again no picture!! 🙁 you make all my favorites, makes me crave when I read your posts. my mom makes the deadliest carrot rice – its simple like yours no masalas. except that she uses more carrots and julienned not grated. something like 5 carrots for 2 cups of rice. so i guess its more carroty and looks orangey for sure. and she cooks the rice with the carrots… like in dum.

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  6. Rosa's Yummy Yums

    August 6, 2008 at 9:58 am

    A great way to prepare rice!

    Cheers,

    Rosa

    Reply
  7. Kitchen Flavours

    August 6, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Looks tasty and simple to cook.

    Reply
  8. RP

    August 5, 2008 at 5:37 pm

    That’s really simple!! An easy way to use up the carrots!
    Is this a new blog? Where is your ‘cooking and me’?

    Reply
  9. Sig

    August 5, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    Wow, this is my kind of rice, simple, easy and colorful… Looks lovely!

    Reply
  10. Shillu (Sireesha)

    August 5, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    Wow!! This looks so healthy & tasty! I am definitely going to try this soon 🙂

    Reply
  11. Rachel

    August 5, 2008 at 5:15 am

    Beautiful pics of the beautiful rice….

    Reply
  12. LG

    August 5, 2008 at 3:37 am

    Carrots always go well with one pot meals..rice looks rich and tasty..

    Reply
  13. Latha

    August 4, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    looks groovy!

    Reply
  14. A_and_N

    August 4, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    The picture is gorgeous. Carrots are always there in my fridge. I am not very fond of them, but A is. So, I guess I should try this.

    Reply
  15. Lavi

    August 4, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Simple, yet delicious one. I to prepare in the same way, i used add roasted peanuts to it.

    Reply
  16. Mallika

    August 4, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    I’m loving your recent recipes -so healthy and easy. Was admiring the gingelly brinjal fry a minute ago too.

    Reply
  17. TBC

    August 4, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    You made carrot rice too. I saw one on Laavanya’s blog 2 days back.:D
    Rice, pappad, pickle and a raita- yum! yum!

    Reply
  18. sra

    August 4, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    It looks beautiful. I think some fried and ground urad dal would be nice in this but I would be lazy to do that unless I was very keen.

    Reply
  19. Ramya's Mane Adige

    August 4, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    cool… such a beautiful looking quick fix!!! I have a few carrots lying around too 🙂

    Reply
  20. delhibelle

    August 4, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    Your carrot rice looks so pretty and delicious. I love how minimal spices are used to kep the flavour subtle. Hope you are having fun in Hyderaba:)d

    Reply
  21. Sia

    August 4, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    that looks delicious but i hate the job of grating which i would gladly pass to my hubby dear:)
    so r u bk from ur trip to hyd or still enjoying there?

    Reply
  22. Rosie

    August 4, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    This looks really delicious and a great way of using up those carrots!

    Rosie x

    Reply
  23. Aparna

    August 4, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Greta for a quick meal.
    My version has minimal spices and peas too.

    Reply
  24. Raaga

    August 4, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    I made something very similar… using cornmeal instead of rice. 🙂 It is a very good idea.

    Reply
  25. Jayashree

    August 4, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I usually like to just mix up carrot thoran with rice and eat it like that. I love that first pic.

    Reply
  26. Shreya

    August 4, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Hi Naga, I make this often:-) and I never use Dal or ground masala. Whenever I have leftover rice and waiting-to-be-finished-by-the-weekend carrots, I make this. Love your pic. Don’t mind, but I did not like the placement of the image ad just below the post, it would be nice if you could move it to the left column or something…

    Reply
  27. Mona

    August 4, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    The carrot rice looks yumm! I usually munch on raw carrots always..

    Reply
  28. Sireesha

    August 4, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    Same pinch …….Today I also posted carrot rice only but yours looks delicious and awesome….

    Reply
  29. notyet100

    August 4, 2008 at 9:35 am

    this looks so simple nd yum..

    Reply
  30. Sukanya Ramkumar

    August 4, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Hi….
    Carrot rice looks so good. Prefect picture. Loved the color of ur rice. YUM!

    Reply
  31. Meeta

    August 4, 2008 at 9:05 am

    Oh this looks absolutely lovely. Sometimes it gets boring serving plain rice – this is a great alternative!

    Reply
  32. Arundathi

    August 4, 2008 at 8:45 am

    i love carrot rice. i actually don’t like the ones with the ground masalas – i make it nice and simple like this. its the only way the actual flavor of the carrot is retained. lovely!

    Reply

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