Tempering left over rice (Seeth Phaan Recipe)

Any left over rice is tempered & given a delicious make over in most GSB homes. This is called seeth phaan in Konkani. 

You can make leftover rice into a chitranna - plain chitranna, chitranna with onions, without onions (with ginger), chitranna with rasam powder,  or into a puliyogare or into a bisibelebath or into a simple fried rice or anything really. 

Here's a recipe for the easiest, quickest rice dish - seeth phaan, I love to make of left over rice. 

It's super easy, super duper quick, super tasty. I love to make it super spicy & enjoy. 

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup over rice
• 1-2 tablespoons of oil 
• 1/4 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1/4 teaspoon urad dal (optional)
• 1-2 green chillies
• 7-8 curry leaves
• Salt to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida powder
  
  Serves: 1-2
  Time taken to prepare: 3-4 minutes

Preparation Method:

1. Heat a wok, add in oil. 

2. Add in mustard seeds, urad dal, green chillies chopped into roundels.

3. Allow mustard seeds to splutter, urad dal to fry until starts brown, green chillies to splutter for a few seconds.

4. Add in curry leaves, salt, turmeric powder, asafoetida powder. 

5. Mix in well, add well separated cooked rice & saute well for few minutes on low flame.

6. Enjoy. 

P.S: I love to make this extra spicy with a big hit of asafoetida. 

Works best, tastes best when rice is not soft & smashed together, cooked rice grains are well separated & have a bite to them.