Puthina Satham / Mint Rice

A good form of variety rice, quick and easy to make. Mint is a good healing herb. Aside from all the other health benefits of mint, it also can help in your efforts to lose weight in a healthy way! Mint is a stimulant, it stimulates the digestive enzymes that absorb nutrients from food and consume fat and turn it into usable energy. Therefore, by adding mint to your diet, you are increasing the amount of fat that is being consumed and put to use, rather than being stored and contributing to your weight gain! Also check for growing mint at home 

Ingredients:

Mint leaves - 2 bunch
Rice- 1 1/2 cup
Oil - 5 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Channa dhal - 1 tsp
Cardamom - 2 nos (Crushed)
Cinnamon sticks - 2 nos
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Anise - 2 nos (Optional)
Bay leaves - 3 nos (Optional)
Onion - 1 medium size (Finely chopped lengthwise)
Green chillies - 6-7 nos (Upto your taste, chopped finely)
Curry leaves - 1 stem
Salt - 2- 3 tsp (to taste)
Cashew nuts - few (Optional)

Procedure:

• Steam cook rice. I prefer using steamed rice. Spread it in a wide bowl and let it cools down.

• Clean mint leaves. Heat pan and sputter whole garam masala items (cinnamon sticks, cloves, cardamom, bay leaf, star anise, fennel seeds), mustard seeds and channa dhal.

• Saute Onion, green chillies, curry leaves.
• Just mince mint leaves and add it into the saute pan.

• Stir, so that water content from the mint leaves goes off. Add salt to taste. Add Cashew nuts and cook for a minute and that's it. 

• Remove it from stove and mix mint masala into the rice. Mix softly such that steamed rice should not break or smash..

• Flavored tasty rice is ready.