Fried Chura (Beaten rice with Potatoes)

After having Chhori, I am always looking for easy and quick meals as I don’t have lots of time to spend in the kitchen.

Chura (beaten rice) is one of the widely used to replace rice in Nepali culture. I used to make fried chura a lot with eggs and onion but recently discovered that they are very yummy with potatoes too so sharing the recipe here.

I used flat thick Chura as shown in photo below. Make sure it is not too thin otherwise it will be very mussy when soaked.

Ingredients

• 2 cups Beaten/Flattened Rice Flakes, thick variety (Poha)
• 1 medium sized potato, peeled and cut into small cubed size
• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
• Salt to taste
• Few curry leaves
• 2 green chilli

Method

• Gently rinse Beaten/Flattened Rice with cold water. Let it sit in a colander and drain the excess water and sprinkle salt.

• In a microwave safe container, add the cubed potatoes and add 2 table spoon of water, cover it and cook for 5 minutes. This process will semi cooked the potatoes making it easy to fry.

• Heat oil in a medium non-stick pan/work on medium heat.
• Add the mustard in it and when it starts popping, add the cumin seeds.

• When it gets aromatic, add turmeric powder, onion, chillies along with curry leaves
• Cook for 1-2 minutes until the onion gets soft.
• Add the potatoes and mix until combined.

• Cook potatoes for few minutes until tender but not mushy.
• Add beaten/Flattened Rice  and gently mix everything.

• Fried Chura is ready to serve.

Take care everyone,

M from nepaliaustralian

XOXO