Mango rice (Maamidikaya puliharam)

Ingredients:

•1 cup rice (uncooked)
•1 large green mango (grated)
•about 8 green chillies
•few curry leaves
•cilantro
•peanuts and
•salt
Procedure:

•Cook the rice with two cups of water. Remove the lid and let the rice dry a little bit.
•Grate the mango using a food processor or any other grater you have.
•In a pan put some oil and fry the peanuts till they become crisp. Once done, remove and keep them a side.
•In the same pan add few more tsps of vegetable oil and prepare the popu or tadka( few mustard seeds, 1 tsp chana dal, 1/2 tsp urad dal, few curry leaves and three pinches of Asafetida ).
•Now add the green chillies. once the chillies are fried add the grated mango , cook just for a minute and turn off the heat.
•Add the peanuts, cooked rice, cilantro and salt to the above mixture and serve.
Note: If the mango is not sour, you can add some lemon juice to the rice.