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Carrot Rice Recipe – How to Make Carrot Rice

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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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  5. 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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  20. 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.

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  24. 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?

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  29. 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…

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  32. 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!

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