Curd Rice

That was a lovely post dear @iyerviji aunty....
My husband is a big fan of curd rice....
I like to drink neer mor or chaaa.
The way I prepare curd rice is by adding salt and Tadka of mustard, Chana dhal, urad dhal, cumin seeds, hing, curry leaf, green chilly.
To the rice I add curd grated ginger and coriander leaf, mix well and serve.
I have seen some friends adding kaju, raisins, onion and grated carrot and pomegranate to curd rice, to make it healthier and tastier.

 

I had spent a few sleepovers in such a family who made curd-rice with tadka. The grandmother of that family will pick off the spicy bits (green chilis, ginger) and serve the curd-rice on to the small outstretched palms of the children. They were a collective family, and had six children in the elementary school age. I was the seventh, but I only showed up on occasional nights.
We all sat around her, while she would put the rice on our hand, and wait for us to bend the thumb to make a little hole in the middle, and then pour half a spoon of spicy kuzhambu in it. While we ate, she would ask us to chew it once for every tooth we had. Most of us had gaps in our teeth, and therefore we could chew less.

And she told us stories. Sometimes, these were serials, like Panchatantra, and I, being a temporary diner in the crowd, was often at a loss as to what had happened before.

The OP's serving of the curd-rice post with the story is very reminiscent of the practice of such families. No wonder the children of those families turned out to be clever. After all, Vishnu Sharma, the author of Panchatantra, promised that.

 

@iyerviji Lovely snippet .Curd rice with previous day leftover karakulampu is my favourite lunch in my school days.Now i take curd rice with fried sundakka and i don't know the correct word in English (Pea egg plant).Add milk to the rice and add a pinch of salt with a teaspoon of curd which gives a delicious curd rice. A harmless food when we are on travel.

 

Sweet post dear Viji aunty
No doubt, curd rice is my favourite, with or without tadka doesn’t matter. Our meals are incomplete without curd rice. Curd rice with mango pickles yummmm

 

Tats my fav too

 

Vijima this is my favourite ! I can survive with this alone.. My mouth already started watering

 

Dear Vijiakka,

What can be equal to curd rice with a pickle? You brought some wonderful memories of my younger ages when I used to regularly visit my mother's parents place in a village. All grandchildren used to sit around grandma and she would prepare Sambhar rice first with Narthanga first and give around for each grandchild. Later, she would also bring curd rice and Vathal Kulambu and give it again. Our appetites used to be very high just because of her love.

Even when I was in the peak of my career traveling international, when I came back home, I always asked for rice and curd. I think it is more to do with my upbringing. I remember the days I used to take curd rice with pickle in a ever-silver lunch box.

Viswa

 

Dear Viji aunty,

Many of my friends used to call me "curd rice" - my lunch box always had some and if I didn't take, I would take a spoonful from someone else who had and finished my meal. My DD is fond of curd rice and as a baby/toddler she had figured out mosranna (curd rice in Kannada) as curd and asks even now for "mosranna rice" or she will say I just want plain mosranna with pickle (not able to say uppinkayi, she had come up with enkapelele and uses it even now) and when she gets curd rice, she will try to convince the aunties in India how she does not want rice with it. Now of course everyone knows what she wants and oh aunty, for me curd rice is just that, curd + rice, no additions!! I love it!