Horse-Gram Rice Dish.

Can you beleive it….horse-food is eaten by humans! There is a saying in Tamil language ‘ ellaichavanukku ellu, kozhuthavanakku kollu’…oh what a rhyming! Means….a slim person should take a diet based on sesame(it helps to put on healthy weight)and a fat amn should go on horse-gram diet(yeah it helps to shed down extra fat).

Horse-gram is prepared at home occasionally in soup form, rasam and rarely even sundal form. The key is one should use the same water…in which we soaked them or pressure cooked them. This water along with the gram are so nutritious! They help to flush the bad cholesterol. Mommy says…if we take a spoon full of horse-gram powder along with water…early in the morning, it reduces abdominal fat. Wow nice short-cut! No need to go through all the cooking process!:)

Anyway…today, I made this rice dish with left over horse-gram. When I cooked extra-batch…..still didnt feel like wasting them. So made this recipe, its a fix recipe!

Method:

Horse-gram 1 small cup
Par-boiled Rice 1 cup
Salt
Dry red chilies few crushed
Curry leaves few
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Oil few spoons.

Methods:

Soak horse-gram in water for baout 7 hours/overnight.

Pressure cook them till tender…maybe for about 6-7 whistles. Retain the water as well.

In a crok pot, add oil. Add mustards, chilies and curry leaves. Let them pop and splutter well.

Now stir-in rice, add salt and followed by horse gram along with its water. Maybe add a little more water. Measure up…1 cup of rice needs 2 cups of water.

Cover and cook till the rice is done!