Do you love takeaway because you can’t cook like your grandmum?

Sadly, Chitranna or flavored rice is taken for granted. Any flavored Indian rice is swept under the rug for one reason, which could be nothing else than this one!

“Arrgghh! Too boring a stuff to amuse a foodie!”

People cringe at each other thinking about having mango rice for lunch, and it goes unnoticed in the morning rush.

It’s not as easy as it looks to cook regional.

Sia Krishna reminisces about the good ol’ times she spent at her grandmother’s kitchen. Tagged with the recipe are the emotions of her childhood days By the time, I ran through the recipe, I couldn’t help adding it to my weekly grocery chart.

I consider myself lucky for running into Monsoonspice.com. Photogenic memories run all over the recipe. Too contagious for a glut I would say!

Let me share a part of it with you people!

All you need are the following ingredients:

Cooked rice, shredded mango, shredded coconut, slit green chilies, finely chopped ginger, lemon juice, roasted peanuts, mustard seeds, chickpeas, black gram, dry red chilies/ cayenne pepper, garlic powder/asafetida, curry leaves, turmeric powder, salt, canola oil

Who likes to go for a jiffy 10-minute breakfast or lunch?

Who likes to please their mind by leaving a copy of your grandmother’s culinary skills?

Who likes to give it up for tangy mango-coconut chitranna?

Who likes to admit you hate no-curry Indian rice dishes just because you can’t cook traditional?

Who likes to open up about your craving for homemade tangy rice dishes?

To be frank, they might it find it a child’s play, when they try cloning Sia Krishna’s recipe!  

(Source: http://www.monsoonspice.com/2015/07/mango-coconut-chitranna-recipe-quick.html)

Mango-coconut chitranna (Mango-coconut rice) is a quick lunch dished out in all the kitchens of Udupi origin.

Whilst there are people who spare the afternoon for takeaway at the very sight of an Indian regional dish that comes without curry, a few amongst them love to binge a bowl of them.

Ask a South Indian living away from home and you’ll know how much of craving goes for tangy Indian rice dishes.

I was watching ‘No Kitchen Required’ that night. Dr. Shini Somara was around to nail it with traditional fishing techniques of the Sea gypsies of Uraklavoy. The chefs were running to please the tribal chiefs.

It’s not easy to cook traditional!

(Video courtesy: Swayampaaka)

(Pictures courtesy: Monsoon Spice, other sources)