1. Wash and keep rice in cooker.
2. Add 2 cups of water and a drop of oil so that the rice is not mashed.
3. After cooking spread on a plate and allow to cool.
4. Always add a pinch of salt or a drop of oil while preparing variety rice.
5. Wash and cut coriander leaves and keep it ready.
6. Chop onions and keep other ingredients ready.
7. Add a tea spoon of oil to kadai and fry cumin seeds, red chillies, green chillies, black gram dal, bengal gram, tamarind ginger, garlic and grated coconut.
8. Grind them to a paste.
9. Now heat ghee in a pan/kadai, add asafoetida, cumin seeds, onions, curry leaves, then the ground paste and a little salt and the chopped coriander leaves.
10. Mix them well. Add to the boiled rice.
11. Coriander rice is hot and delicious to be served.

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