Yogurt rice or curd rice is a popular South Indian dish. Yogurt Rice makes a great side dish or good for lunch box as a complete meal.
Recipe will serve 4.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup rice
- 1/4 cup split moong dal (washed) available at Indian grocery store
- 3 cups of water
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 cup yogurt (curd or dahi)
- 1/4 cup shredded cucumber (kheera)
- 1/4 cup shredded carrots (gajar)
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped ginger (adrak)
For Seasoning
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds (rai)
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
- 2 whole red peppers
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped green pepper, adjust to taste
- 8-10 curry leaves available at Indian grocery store, optional
- 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro (hara dhania)
Method
- Wash rice and moong dal changing water several times until the water appears clear.
- Drain the rice and moong dal and put it into the saucepan. Add water, oil, ginger, and salt, and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Once the water is boiling reduce the heat to low, do not cover the pan. Cook for 10-12 minutes rice and dal will be soft cover the pan and cook for about 15 minutes, or until the rice is very soft and mushy.
- Mix the rice and dal whipping making them mushy; if rice is dry add little more hot water as needed. Mix should be consistency of portage.
- Let the rice cool down to room temperature, add the yogurt and mix it well. Adding the yogurt to hot rice will make yogurt sour and watery. Next add cucumber, carrot and ginger and mix.
- Prepare the seasoning: In a small sauce pan heat the oil over medium high heat. Add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds as seeds crack add red pepper, green chili, curry leaves and cilantro stir for about a minute. As you will add curry leaves oil will splatter, so be careful.
- Turn off the heat and mix the seasoning with rice mix. Yogurt Rice is ready to serve.
- Yogurt Rice is served at room temperature.
Enjoy!
What can we serve with this please?
Traditionally with yogurt rice you do not need any think, by itself it is light meal.
This is not mosaranna. For mosaranna we don’t add dal. It is only rice. Vegetables are also not required. Instead you can use pomegranate seeds and grapes. It really tastes good.
It gives me a quick flashback of my childhood days. Curd Rice I used to have daily.
i m a south indian but never know about such dish MoSarana . Which part of south india makes this ? May be they got the name wrong . and its too much modified .
hello,
make plain rice, add natural set yogurt and salt to taste. your curd rice is ready to eat. this is a daily diet in certain sect of people in karnataka eaten as the last dish of a meal. mosaru is yogurt and anna is rice in Kannada language.
thanks.
Mosaranna is curd rice in Kannada. (Karnataka)
Why does it have to exactly like Mosaranna? It may not be the traditional recipe but This recipe is more healthy. Appreciate it.
Very nice .thank you for modifications to curd rice.In AP,we do not add moong dal.The only Prasad offered to lord Balaji in Tiripati is only curd rice not laddu!
The dish looks very nice! I want to give this a try. Can you use Greek yoghurt for this?
Thanks manjula Ji, now i make daily recipe from your website.
Thanks Mandula! This one is absolutely delicious!! [I made it also]….