Curd rice/ thayir sadham

It has been only cakes recipes in my blog lately so I had to take an extra effort to post something different before another cake recipe and this Thayyir sadham which I prepare quite often these days  perfectly fitted the bill. The weather in this part of the world has been super hot and at home I don’t feel like eating  cooking any dinner on a hot day and  this curd rice is a life saver on such days...  a perfect comfort food for a hot day ! 

Ingredients

Rice - 1 1/4 cup 

Carrot - 2 grated

Cucumber - 1/2 of cucumber ( finely chopped)

Ginger minced - 1 tsp

Coriander leaves - finely chopped 

Yogurt - 1 cup

water - 1/4 cup

salt

for tempering/tadka
oil

Mustard seeds -  1 1/2 tsp

Peanuts -2 tbs ( optional)

Urad dal - 2 tsp

Whole red chilli - 2

Asoefitida/hing/ kayam - a pinch

Curry leaves

Method

• Cook the rice and drain. Mash it with a spoon.
• Transfer the mashed rice into a saucepan and add yogurt/curd and water and place it on a low flame until yogurt is warm.
•  Add grated carrot, chopped cucumber, ginger, coriander leaves and salt and remove from fire.
• For tadka take a small pan and add oil and when its hot add mustard seeds when it sputters add urad dal , peanuts  and when it becomes light brown add  whole red chillies, curry leaves and hing and heat for few seconds and remove from fire. 
• Add tadka to the rice and serve hot !