Mango rice (south Indian style), is a flavour packed and tasty variety rice you can try this in mango season. Learn how to make this mangai sadam, inspired from mavinakayi chitranna with step by step pictures.
It would have been few years since I made Mango rice. Now since mango season has started, I thought I should make it.
And bought a couple of raw mangoes when I went to little Indian market. Today I made and had it for lunch at last! This one is very simple recipe and it's an easy lunch box idea as well. Just had it with mom’s homemade vadams.
The grating part is what it takes time. Otherwise, within 10 minutes the mango rice is ready! I had the recipe in a recipe book by Ramani Chandran called “Rani samayal.” This recipe is part of my lunch menu 55:
Easy south Indian lunch idea
Recipe card
Mango rice recipe, Mangai sadam
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice uncooked
- 1 Raw mango Unripe mango
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric
- Salt
TO TEMPER
- 2 tablespoon Sesame oil
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 teaspoon Urad dal
- 2 teaspoon Chana dal
- 2 tablespoon Peanuts
- ⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida
- 3 Red Chillies
- 4 Green Chillies you can use red chillies alone too
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- Firstly, cook rice with 2 cups water for 3-4 whistles, cool down and separate the grains.
- Peel the mango and grate it finely.
- Heat pan with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order.
- Add turmeric powder,grated mango and mix.
- Fry for 2 minutes in medium flame. Lastly add salt and mix well.
- Mix with the cooled rice and serve with papad.
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Notes
- I used both red chilli and green chilli for flavour. You can use any one too.
- Depending on the variety of rice you use, the water ratio varies. Which ever you use, cook with lesser water to get separate grains after cooking.
Stepwise images
Cook rice
- Firstly, wash the rice well 2-3 times until water runs clear.
- Cook 1 cup rice with 2 cups water for 4 whistles.
- Once done, cool down by spreading on a broad plate/ vessel with a teaspoon of sesame oil, little salt and separate the grains gently.
- As it cools, will become fluffier.
Make mango rice
- Firstly, peel the mango with a peeler (with ridges means it's easy to peel) and grate it finely.
- After that, heat pan with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ in order.
3. Add turmeric powder, grated mango and mix.
4. Fry for 2 minutes in medium flame. Lastly add salt and mix well.
5. Mix with the cooled rice and serve with papad.
The rice is so flavourful and goes well with any papad/ vadam/ appalam or simple poriyals !
Sangeetha Nambi
Love this seasonal tangy dish !
Spandana
Yumm... Looks so delicious!!!
Prathibha
Same pinch for posting mango rice..I love this version too..:)
Sudha Sabarish
My hubby loves this a lot.Even my mom use to prepare in the same method.
Padhu
Love this tangy dish very much
Akila
Wow that was really yummy n tangy ones... Nice to have it with vadavams
Mamta
yummy yummy 🙂 love it..
Kalpana Sareesh
me too love this tangy rice.. good color..
Gayathri NG
Yummy n tangy rice, my huuby's fav... We also used to prepare in same method, well done Raji...
Chitra
Mine is different from this. Will try this version. Aunty had told abt the recipes in this book, am searching to buy this 🙂
Santosh Bangar
wonderful recipe
Aruna Manikandan
nice tangy rice...
Kaveri Venkatesh
Love this tangy rice...I made a slightly different version from the Cookbook, cooking with Pedhatha
Hamaree Rasoi
saw another mango rice dish at Prathy's place 🙂 This rice is very much in demand this season. Tempting...
Deepa
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jeyashrisuresh
We too make it in the same way . Simple and tangy rice and it was a nice shopping experience in little india for the first time with you
Shama Nagarajan
delicious rice raji.ongoing event : http://easy2cookrecipes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fruit-of-month-grapes-event_02.html
Priti
I never tried making this..should try soon ..looks yum
Kalyani
mango rice looks yummy and i too make the same way !!!!!
Priya
Tongue tickling rice,makes me drool..
Satya
love this rice...u made it so nicely...yummy
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Anu
I too do this the same way. Yum and tangy rice.
Suparna
beautiful! love this tangy spicy rice!!
Ramya
Looking at the pictorial makes my mouth water:-)
Lovely clicks as always Raks!
Divya Kudua
Tangy and spicy rice-perfect lunch!
Nalini's Kitchen
Delicious and tangy rice...looks yummy.Nice clicks as always.
Nagalakshmi V
i made this last weekend too, then i saw DK had posted it on monday and now you 🙂
Laavanya
It's been a while since I made this too... looks so good.
Spice up the Curry
wow. mouthwatering rice recipe. love it
Plateful
My hubby just returned from India with a bounty of mangoes--green and ripe ones as well. I should try this!
Rasi
We do it a similar way.. love it absolutely 🙂
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Sravs
Nice tangy rice !! love this anytime !!
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sangeetha
super tangy n yummy rice...my fav too...looks so inviting!! beautiful clicks as always!
Sushma Madhuchandra
this is exactly how I make it most of the time. Nice presentation as always!
Sharmilee! :)
Tangy and flavourful rice....my fav. Looks very tempting.
Kanchan
Quite new to me, love such tangy variations...
Vardhini
Tangy rice and lovely color.
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Shanthi
Looks so yumm!! Wonderful tangy rice and sure would have tasted good too.
Premalatha Aravindhan
wow delicious preparation,still have mangoes will make this...yummy version:)
surkhab
wow ! This is a perfect and cool recipe for summer .Will try this recipe soon and i will post this recipe on my blog too.
radha
Very nice and simple. But what I made sometime ago was tooooo tangy!
Maayeka
Perfect RECIPE for this season..very delicious and tangy rice
Aarthi
wow..very yummy rice..should try soon
Home Cooked Oriya Food
cool and yummy recipe... perfect at anytime for me... but awesome for summer!
Shobha Kamath
Tangy and yummy rice!
Ramya
yummy and flavourful rice
faseela
yummy n tangy rice......
Rinku Naveen
Perfect lunch idea. Mouthwatering recipe!
Pappathi
awesome.. awesome.. delicious food.. nice photo shots..
priya ravi
Rice looks so nice.. perfect lunch box recipe
Saraswathi Iyer
My fav. looks delicious and superb clicks.
Pavithra Elangovan
All time fav rice..way too tempting 🙂 Lovely pics Raks 🙂
themustardseed
Love mango rice and that look super delicious!
Deeps @ Naughty Curry
mouth watering! love tangy mango rice
Hema
I love this rice, a nice alternative to the lemon and tamarind rice..
Sumi
lovely colour, miss all those 'ootu maanga' that we get in chennai this month 🙂
Non stick, Nutty and Sous chef
Mango rice seems to be the flavor of the season!!! Yay!! 🙂 i love your step by step pictures too!
Lubna Karim
One of my fav lunch box recipe...can be made in jiffy if u have cooked and cooled rice....love the color...looks yum...
Apputty
wow i use to add ginger garlic paste for getting masala favour 🙂
Joey
I made this last week along with Rhengan Rhevya from Nags cookingandme.com. The combo worked very well. Thank you 🙂
Shalini Mahesh
hi raks really its mouth watering recipe.. with full of enthu i have started to do with frozen mango.. but it turned disaster. can u guide me how can we handle with frozen mango's. it was terrible to grate the frozen mango. i use to get only fro-zed one in my area (US)
Hi
looks yummy. i am going to make this today
kabeer
wow
Sathish K
A Small Tip : Adding small amount of Vendhaya Podi(but b careful, wen we add t excess it ll produce bitter taste) ll make dis dish more flavored ....
mini rajan
Superb idea. Ur lunch box ideas r too gud...the combinations gv us gud ideas..v nicely presented thnx mini
Harshita Kapur
I've never even heard of mango rice, but I'm so excited to try these this summer! 🙂
I wonder these would taste so good with one of those masala gravies...like the butter chicken gravy but without chicken in it because you're a vegetarian 🙂