Capsicum Pulao

Ingredients:

1 cup Rice 

1 big Chopped Capsicum (deseeded)

2 Green Chillies 

1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds

1/2 tsp Urad dal

15 Groundnut (Peanuts)

10 Curry leaves

1/4 tsp Turmeric powder 

Coriander leaves

2 tsp Coconut grated 

1/4 tsp Sugar

1 tsp Lemon Juice

3 tsp Oil

Salt to taste

Method:

Cook 1 cup of Rice with 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker. Chop the Green Chillies. Keep them aside. Remove cooked rice from the pressure cooker, spread in plate. In the frying pan, heat Oil. Add mustard seeds, once the seeds splutter, add urad dal. Once the dal ingredients turn golden brown, add groundnuts and fry for about a minute until the nuts change color. Drop curry leaves into the pan and fry for a minute more. Add chopped green chillies and fry them for a minute. Next add chopped capsicum, turmeric powder and fry until the capsicum pieces are cooked. When capsicum pieces are cooked, add Salt and sugar and mix well. Now add cooked rice and and mix well. Then add lemon juice, grated Coconut and mix well. Garnish with Coriander leaves. Ready to serve.

Simla Mirchi Bhaaji

Ingredients:

4 medium sized green bell peppers / capsicums, (or take 2 bigger ones)

3/4 cup chick pea flour / gram flour (besan)

2 tsp chili powder

1 tsp turmeric powder

salt to test

sugar (optional) to taste

cilantro/coriander leaves

1/2 tsp asafoetida

2 tsp mustard seeds

2 tbsp oil

Method:

In a pan add oil and mustard seeds to splutter. Also add asafoetida and bell peppers. Saute well so that the moisture in the peppers evaporate. Now add gram flour and cook for sometime. don't add salt. If you do so, the water content in the peppers make the flour sloppy. bell peppers need not cook for long. once the flour gets crispy, add salt, sugar, turmeric and cilantro. Mix well and remove from flame. Its that simple.

It is also called as Bell peppers subzi.