Capsicum Rice

Ingredients:

Cooked Rice - 2 cups (each grain should be seperate.add a tsp of ghee to the rice and mix)
Butter - 1 tsp
Ghee -1/2 tsp (optional)
Green chilli paste - 1 tsp
Green capsicum - 1
Curry leaves
Pepper powder
Salt

For seasoning / tadka:
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal -1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Roasted broken cashew nuts - 5 nos
Cinnamon stick -1"
Grated coconut - 2 tsps (optional)

Method:

Heat Ghee & butter in a pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds & urad dal.
Once the musterd seeds splutter, add cinnamon stick and saute till the dal turns light brown color.
Add curry leaves & green chilli paste and then fry for a min.
Then add chopped capsicums and fry them for 7-8 mins. (don't over cook capsicums. it should maintain the crunchy texture)
At this stage add salt & pepper powder and mix well.
Minimise the heat and then add the cooked rice, roasted broken cashew nuts to this mixture and cook for 2 mins.
Then add grated coconut to the rice mixture, if u r using.
Turn off the heat & serve it hot with sabji/curry/pickle.

Note:
if u want, you can replace capsicums with vegetables like carrot, potatoes, egg plants, bitter gourd etc..