Thai pineapple fried rice with shrimp served in a halved pineapple - Andrey Starostin/Shutterstock When you do not have fresh peppers on hand, open up your spice cabinet instead. Try red pepper ...
You can spice this up a little if you like – simply add a teaspoon of dried chilli flakes to the puffed rice cereal. Stir some snipped chives through a little 0%-fat Greek-style yoghurt ...
As one leaves one greedily wishes for one more thing on the menu, the ubiquitous, spicy naadan kozhi curry to go with the simplicity of the flavoursome ghee rice.