Method- To cook rice:
Boil the rice in a rice cooker/pressure cooker until it is 90% done (usually 2 or 3 whistles in a pressure cooker). You will
need 1 – 1 1/4 cup of water to cook the rice.
or
- You can also add 8-10 cups of water, add rice and boil it until it is 90% cooked.
- Drain the water using a
strainer/sieve/conventional method.
- In a pan, add oil.
- When it is hot, add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
- Add cumin seeds, hing, curry leaves, green chilli, turmeric powder and saute for few seconds.
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Add chopped onions and saute for 2 minutes on a medium flame.
- Add pineapple, 1 tbsp of water and cook for 5 minutes on a low flame.
- Crush the pineapple slightly as you cook.
Mixing it with rice:
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Add at least 2 cups of boiled rice and mix it with sauce (Just like how you make lemon rice or puliyogare)
- Let it stay for a while and then serve.
- This allows the rice to absorb the flavor of pineapple.
Recipe courtesy: Food for 7 Stages of Life
Ingredients:
1 cup - Basmati/raw/boiled rice
1 cup - pineapple, chopped (1 x 1.5 cm), you might need 3 round slices for 1 cup (peel the skin and remove the thorns)
1&1/2 tbsp - onion, chopped or 1/4 of a small onion
5 - green chillies
1/2 tsp - ginger, chopped
Salt to taste
2 tbsp - oil
Mustard seeds, a pinch
Cumin, a pinch
Asafoetida/hing, a pinch
Turmeric powder, 3 pinches
4 - curry leaves