Peanut Rice

Ingredients

• 1/2 teaspoon of black mustard seed
• 1/2 teaspoon of Cumin seed
• 1/4 cup Spanish redskin peanuts
• 2 Tbsp puliogare powder (you buy it at the Indian grocery)
• 3 Tbsp oil
• 2 Tbsp shredded coconut (sweetened is fine)
• 1 cup uncooked rice
• 1 1/2 cups water

Instructions

Put everything EXCEPT the rice and water in a rice cooker. Mix it together then put the lid on and turn on the rice cooker.

If your rice cooker is like mine, you will be able to fry these ingredients a little bit before you add the rice.

After you start to smell the spices frying, add the rice and mix it up with the other ingredients.

Add the water and start the rice cooker.

Once you stop seeing bubbles rising up through the rice, wait 30 seconds then turn off the rice cooker. If you wait for the rice cooker to shut itself off the rice will burn.

Let the rice sit in the cooker for a couple of minutes to finish soaking up the water.

Notes

If you can only find puliogare paste at the Indian grocery (rather than powder), that's fine - just use one less tablespoon of oil.