Eerulli Chitranna is an interesting version of seasoned rice made with onions and spices. This is an easy dish to make from Karnataka.
Similar to the Lemon Rice recipe from Karnataka, this Onion Chitranna is a simple and easy dish to make. We can even make it with leftover rice. Almost all versions of Lemon rice made across the South Indian States is the same. I have a version of Lemon Rice we make at home.
Apart from these, I have also made Yellina Chitranna, Samai Elumichai Sadam, Lemon Sevai
I came to know about this dish when I was searching for something else when I came about this word of Eerulli to refer to onions. I know we call it Ullipaya, Errakedda in Telugu, and it didn't strike me to check what it's called in other languages.
Anyway, I read that there is a dish called Eerulli Chitranna that's made in Karnataka and that was my dish! I searched and came up with many different dishes that were not related to this, though this was more like it.
Eerulli Chitranna is a simple form of seasoning steamed rice with chilies and other dals to make it a little more interesting. I made it for our lunch to be paired with a kootu and it was a good satisfying meal.
Eerulli Chitranna is my pick for E in the AtoZ Biryani/Pulao/Khichdi Festival that's happening for the April Mega Marathon, where I have opted to make 26 Rice dishes. If you are interested to know what I am doing for E in C4AS, go ahead check it out!
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Eerulli Chitranna | How to make Onion Seasoned Rice
We can make this Chitranna with leftover rice as well. In that case, microwave the rice or steam it again to heat the rice. Spread on a plate before proceeding to cook.
If you are going to use fresh rice, then wash and soak the rice. Cook in your regular method. When you are ready to make the Rice, make sure you spread the rice for it to cool down.
Heat a kadai with oil, temper with mustard, urad dal, chana dal, peanuts, cashew nuts, curry leaves, and green chilies. Combine everything well.
Now add the finely chopped onions and saute till it gets cooked.
Add turmeric powder, mix well and then add cooked rice.
Combine and make sure the rice gets coated well.
Serve with any side dish.
Recipe
Eerulli Chitranna | How to make Onion Seasoned Rice
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice
- 1 cup Onions
- 1/4 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1/4 tsp Urad Dal
- 1/4 tsp Chana Dal
- 3 - 4 Green Chillies
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Few Curry Leaves
- Handful Cashew Nuts
- Handful Peanuts
- Salt to taste
- 2 tsp Cooking Oil
- 1 tsp Ghee
Instructions
How to make Onion Seasoned Rice
- Wash and soak the rice. Cook in your regular method. When you are ready to make the rice, make sure you spread the rice for it to cool down.
- Heat a kadai with cooking oil, temper with mustard, urad dal, chana dal, peanuts, cashew nuts, curry leaves, and green chillies. Combine everything well.
- Now, add the finely chopped onions and sauté till it gets cooked.
- Add turmeric powder, mix well and then add cooked rice.
- Combine and make sure the rice gets coated well.
- Serve with any side dish.
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vaishalisabnani says
A to Z is all about playing with alphabets and resulting in a frantic research and challenge and you sure a master at it .
Glad you could find a perfect rice dish with E , which looks lovely, and very satisfying kinds .
Sushma Pinjala says
Same pinch Valli, I have made this rice too. scheduled for next week. Yours turned out very nice.
Suma Gandlur says
Thiis was made just yesterday at my home. Though I make it rarely, I know onions add a lot of flavor to the simple lemon rice.
Kalyani says
oh yes! this brings back a lot of memories from bangalore days and yes I know people there (including me) who love this even for breakfast 🙂
gayathriraani says
This is such a great find Valli. I didn't know about this but sounds like a cross between variety rice and a simple pulao without the spices. Looks so yum.
Sharmila -Kingsly says
So simple and flavorful pulao with the humble onions.. Will try this for our lunchbox!!
harini says
Very flavorful, right? Growing up, this was the rice my mom used to make with leftover rice as a breakfast. Those days we never cringed at eating flavored rice for breakfast. Try feeding this to the kids now and we see a host of emotions and dialogues 🙂
srividhya says
Yeah in Kannada, eerulli means onion. 🙂 I love lemon rice with onions and the flavor is absolutely amazing. Great pick for alphabet E.
Sowmya:) says
I discovered this last mega BM when I made eerulli dosa. This is how we learn new languages!! Lovely pick for E. So flavorful and delicious!!
Pavani says
Eerulli chitranna looks very interesting and tasty! Lovely choice for E! Thank you for sharing!
Renu Agrawal Dongre says
I would never be able to come with such names :-). This is similar to the tadka rice which we do, but with the addition of onions. A good way to add some flavour and crunch to the recipe.
FoodTrails says
So much similar to our tadka rice with onions. that;'s amazing how you come up with all these searches with names.The rice platter looks so inviting!!