capsicum rice
Simple and healthy capsicum rice recipe with cooked millet. You can use cooked rice or quinoa also to make this recipe
Servings 3 - 4
Ingredients
For cooking millet
- 1 cup Little millet
- 1.5 cups Water
- 1 tsp Oil
- Salt to taste
Other ingredients for capsicum rice
- 1 green capsicum
- 1 red capsicum (Optional, green capsicum can be used instead)
- 1 yellow capsicum (Optional, green capsicum can be used instead)
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves (Finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp garlic (Finely chopped)
- 1 tsp red chili flakes
- 1 tsp black pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Cook the millet and keep it aside. Please check my detailed post on how to cook fluffy millet.
- Meanwhile, chop the capsicum into thin slices. Also finely chop garlic. I haven't added onion, you could add finely chopped onions as well to this.
- Heat a pan and add oil. Once the oil is heated, add finely chopped garlic.
- Now add red chili flakes, dried thyme, dried oregano, and black pepper powder.
- Add chopped capsicum, salt and mix everything. Let it cook on high flame for 5 minutes. Capsicum will retain the crunch when you cook them on high flame.
- Add cooked millet and mix everything well. Adjust salt if required and let it heat for 5 minutes.
- Switch off the flame and add chopped coriander leaves. Mix everything well and Capsicum rice is ready to serve!
Notes
You can make this recipe using cooked rice or quinoa as well instead of cooked millet.