22 January, 2019
YELLUPUDI CHITRANNA
One of the winter special rice dish – we can say, which is made necessarily on the day of makara shankranti festival (Pongal/sankranti). Sweet pongal and yellupudi chitranna are the two main dishes prepared on that day in Bengaluru brahmin households. So today I’m going to share my method of making yellupudi chitranna. Basically a powder is prepared using some of the roasted ingredients and later this powder is mixed with rice. So you can also store this powder for 8 to 10 days under normal weather conditions and can be used mixed with rice as and when required in small quantity.
Please also do check some other rice dish recipes on my blog here – Tomato-fresh green chickpeas rice , Tuppadanna , Yellanna/yellina anna , Lentil rice/bele anna , chutney chitranna , Gorikayi anna , methi-matar lemon rice , capsicum lemon rice , Khichdi , spicy carrot rice , crushed corn lemon rice , raw mango rice – 1 , mosaranna , temple chitranna , chitrannada Pudi , chitrannada gojju , belladanna , amla/nellikayi chitranna , jolada anna/sweet corn rice , Aloo anna/aloo Pulao
Ingredients : measuring cup used – 240 ml Servings – 4 to 5 people
- Cooked rice – 5 to 6 cups
- Salt to taste (only as much required for rice)
To dry roast and powder :
- Cumin seeds – 1/2 tbsp
- Black pepper corns – 1/4 tbsp
- Whole red chilli (non spicy) – 2 to 3 nos.,
- Grated dry coconut – 1/2 cup
- Whole black gram – 1 tbsp
- Sesame seeds (black) – 1 tbsp
- Rock salt – 1/2 tbsp
Others :
- Sesame seeds oil – 1&1/2 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Split bengal gram/chana dal – 1 tbsp
- Split black gram/urad dal – 1/2 tbsp
- Ground nut – 1/3 cup
- Whole red chilies – 2 nos.,
- Sesame seeds (white) – 1&1/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves – 2 strings (I have used curry leaves powder)
- Grated dry coconut – 2 to 3 tbsp
PROCEDURE :
- Dry roast all the ingredients, one by one listed below the heading ‘to dry roast and powder’, without burning, allow it to cool completely then powder it by adding rock salt
- Heat oil in a pan, add in all the ingredients listed below the heading ‘Others’ and when they crackle, turn the heat to sim, add in the cooked rice and prepared powder, salt required for rice and mix them all very well
- Serve hot
