Description
A soothing South Indian meal mixing soft-cooked rice with unsweetened yogurt (Curd), topped with spice oil tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
Restaurants serving Curd Rice
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Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
- Put soft-cooked rice in a bowl, let cool slightly, mix well with plain yogurt and salt.
- Heat oil in a pan, fragrantly fry mustard seeds, cumin, red chilies, ginger, curry leaves to make spice oil.
- Pour hot spice oil over yogurt rice, mix, scatter cilantro to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Yogurt acidity and mustard seed savoriness
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Japanese rice (stickiness blends well with yogurt)
Pairing
Mango Achar(as sour/spicy accent)
Trivia
[Trend] Japanese are surprised by 'yogurt on rice?', but it tastes very delicious like risotto. In South India, finishing the meal by filling the stomach with this is absolute etiquette.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Shovel it down as a 'closing rice' to cool down the stomach at the very end after eating super spicy curries or Meals!
Allergen
Dairy