Chitranna rice dish

Chitranna | New Delhi Temple Prasada Style Chitranna |

Divya Suresh June 10, 2026

Chitranna | New Delhi Temple Prasada Style Chitranna |

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Whenever we visit Sri Venkateshwara temple, a branch of TTD in New Delhi, we get this chitranna-a rice dish as Prasada. And it is so tasty and simple that I tried it out immediately after our first visit around 13 years back, and since then I have been making this chitranna often

This is very easy and quick dish that can be made with freshly cooked or left out rice, it tastes superb either way. Now let’s look at this very aromatic and simple recipe

Actually, this chitranna looks like a simpler version of Ulundogare (roasted (powdered) black gram rice) it closely resembles that recipe, though I must say it is a much simpler version

By the way, here you can check few more recipes, which also include cumin seeds, sesame seeds and split black gram, like –

Ingredients – measuring cup used – 250 ml

Cooked rice – 1&1/2 cups
Salt – to taste

For tempering :

Ghee – 3/4 to 1 tbsp
Split black gram flour/uddina hittu – 1/2 tbsp
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Black pepper powder – 1/8 tsp
Hing/asafoetida – 1/8 tsp
Curry leaves – few
Cashew nuts, broken – 2 tbsp (optional)

PROCEDURE :

Heat ghee in a Pan/Karahi, Put uddina hittu (split black gram flour) and roast until aromatic and turns light brown, then immediately add cashew nuts(if adding), cumin seeds, pepper powder, hing, curry leaves, stir once, reduce the heat to low