Kitri
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1 cup rice
1 cup yellow split peas (or yellow dal)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp tumeric
2 chilies (jalapeno, serrano, thai, whatever)
1 head of broccoli
2 carrots
1 white onion or 2 shallots
1 inch piece of fresh ginger
3-5 sections of garlic
2 cups string beans
1 tsp anise seed
1 small potato
1 pinch of asafoetida (hing)
2 teaspoon ground cumin
1 cup raisins
1 tsp cinnamon
1 Tblsp curry
garam masala (sprinkle a little when it’s done and stir)
Wash rice and dahl very thoroughly.
Cook separately as cooking times may vary depending on your rice and type of dal, and they have different water to ingredient ratios.
I use brown basmati rice: 1 cup rice, 2 cups water, bring to boil, then cover and simmer for 50 min. Do not lift the lid during simmering.
I often use yellow dal (similar, but not the same as yellow split peas). Feel free to use either. I cup dal, 3 cups water. Bring to boil, then simmer, covered about 45 min or until tender (Dal is more chewy than split peas, and may take a bit longer).
Wash and cut your veggies into bite-sized pieces and steam for about 15 min. (If you don’t have a steamer, you can stir fry the veggies)
Once the dal and rice are done, mince the garlic, onion/shallots, ginger and chilies and saute them in butter or sesame oil in a wok or frying pan.
Mix the rice and dal together in a large pot or wok and mix in the sauteed spices. Add the other spices and ingredients and cook on med-hi until well mixed, perhaps 10 min after all the ingredients have been added.
This is much better after a couple of days in the fridge, when the flavors have really melded. Very exotic spicy-sweet!
For an extra treat, you can put a dollop of sour cream on top and it is very good!
March 1st, 2010 at 5:24 pm
You forgot to put the garlic in the ingredients list
I’m eating this meal as I type this. Delicious!
March 1st, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Ah, fixed it. Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying the recipe!
March 5th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
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March 8th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
In your recipe you say:
1 curry
I think you are missing the measurement there!
March 12th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Just made this and it is very good. I wasn’t sure when to use the ginger, so i saute’d it with the onions, garlic, and chilies.
I look forward to making stir fry with rice tomorrow.
March 12th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Ah, sorry! I fixed it for ya. Glad the recipe is working out for you!
March 13th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
this was delicious! thanks for the recipe!
March 13th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Thanks so much, I’m glad it worked for you!
March 16th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
This dish was absolutely nummy! Everybody in the house loved it. It took me a while to find asafoetida, but I’m glad I found it, it’s that little something that’s always been missing from my Indian cooking! Thank you so much for posting these recipes and making this site!
May 1st, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Hey! My husband and I came across this site and just started making the recipes. We made this one tonight, and I’m trying to figure out what we did wrong. (many of these ingredients are new to us, so we are still learning how to use and cook with them) Anyways, while the flavors were spot on, the texture seemed a bit off. We added everything into the wok and it started turning into a paste, it was very sticky (but still tasted great!) I’m wondering if it’s suppose to be like this, or if we went wrong in either the cooking or the substitutions. We used green split peas because we couldn’t find the yellow, and used short grain brown rice instead of long. Do you have any thoughts on this?
May 1st, 2010 at 7:06 pm
It should be pretty thick. I’ve never tried it with green split peas, so I don’t know if they might have a different texture for this dish. Make sure to rinse the rice and the dahl really well before cooking it, that may be a factor as well.
But, taste is more important than texture
Hope the site helps you guys out!
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September 3rd, 2010 at 11:22 am
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