Carrot Rice

This is a very nutritious recipe of carrot made from groundnuts, carrots and spices like cinnamon and cloves.

Ingredients:
2 cups rice

onion-1 cup finely chopped

carrots-2

2tsp fried groundnuts

2 tsp oil

a small piece of cinnamon

1 tsp broken black gram

2 nos cloves

1/4 tsp mustard seeds

1 tsp bengal gram

few curry leaves

Salt as per taste

For Masala:

1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds

3/4 tsp cumin seeds

2 tsp grated coconut

4 nos red chillies

Method:
Heat the pan, pour the 1 tsp oil. Add red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and fry till it turns brown.Add grated coconuts and remove from the heat. Grind it after it cools down.
Fry groundnuts and keep them saparetly
Cook the rice and let it cool.
Grate carrots without peeling the skin.
Heat oil in a pan. Add cloves, cinnamon, mustard, broken block gram and Bengal gram. Fry them.Add curry leaves and chopped onions. Once the onion is cooked, add the grated carrots. Fry till the carrots are cooked.Add rice and fry in a low flame. Add salt and the ground masala powder. Mix it well with the rice.Finally add groundnuts and remove from the flame. Serve hot.