Mango Rice | Raw Mango Chitranna | Mavinakai Chitranna

Mango rice is a South Indian style rice dish where cooked rice is sauteed with grated raw mangoes, herbs, lentils and spices.

Mango season is back and we’re once more gearing as much as make all of the mango dishes. There are such a lot of recipes one could make using raw in addition to ripe mangoes. To read all of the mango recipes on this blog, click here.

Mango rice is a summer specific dish made with raw mangoes. This is sort of popular in southern parts of India. Mango rice is referred to as Mavinakayi Chitranna in Karnataka.  

About Mango Rice

Mango rice is a straightforward rice preparation made with cooked rice, grated raw mangoes and spices. The recipe is comparable to that of lemon rice. Grated raw mango is added to a tempering of curry leaves, mustard seeds, hing, chana dal, udad dal, chillies, peanuts, cashew nuts and cooked. Cooked rice is later added to this and garnished with fresh coconut and coriander leaves.

Raw mangoes lend a tangy taste  to the dish and the tempering of curry leaves,mustard seeds, chana dal, udad dal makes the dish flavourful. The lentils added to the tempering alongwith peanuts and cashew nuts give a pleasant crunch to the dish. 

Mango rice makes for a light-weight lunch option and is an ideal  dish for lunch boxes. It tastes good by itself and doesn’t require any accompaniment as such. When you want to have some sides with mango rice, you’ll be able to serve some papad and pickle.

What we love about Mango Rice

Mango Rice –

is straightforward to organize
gets made under half-hour if you have got cooked rice available with you
is vegan
is flavourful and delicious
is an ideal recipe to make use of leftover cooked rice
will be served as a stand alone dish
makes for an ideal lunch box option for youths/adults.

List of Ingredients

Cooked rice : if you have got cooked rice available, then this recipe gets made in a jiffy. When you are cooking rice specially for this recipe, ensure that to spread the cooked rice on a plate and let it cool down before using. Recipe to cook rice is here. I even have used cooked basmati rice for this recipe. You should utilize any rice of your alternative.

Raw mango : sour raw mango is used for this recipe. The amount of mango will be adjusted depending on the sourness of the mango.

For tempering : oil, curry leaves, mustard seeds, chana dal, udad dal, hing, dry red chillies,green chillies,  peanuts and cashew nuts.

For garnishing : fresh coconut and coriander leaves

Other ingredients : salt, sugar  and turmeric powder.

Step-wise recipe with pictures

Wash the mango

Peel  the mango and grate. Keep grated mango aside.

Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, udad dal and chana dal. Saute for few seconds.

Add hing, curry leaves, dry red chillies and green chillies. Add peanuts  and saute till the peanuts are roasted well.

Add cashew nuts and saute for few seconds.

Add grated mango and saute  for few seconds.

Add turmeric powder, salt and sugar. Mix well and cook for few seconds.

Now, add cooked rice and blend well.

Add fresh, grated coconut, chopped coriander leaves and blend. Mango rice is able to be served.

Note: I even have used totapuri mango. You should utilize any number of sour mango for this recipe.

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More Raw Mango Recipes

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Mangalorean Mango Pickle
Ambe Dal
Vegan Raw Mango Chaas
Kachchi Kairi Sharbat
Raw Mangoes in Brine
Kairi Chutney
Tender Mango Pickle
Raw Mango Rasam
Sweet Mango Pickle
Raw Mango Curry
Andhra style raw mango chutney
Raw mango coconut milk curry

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