Ananya's Simple and Tasty Rice Sevai

Ingredients:

• Idli Rice - 5cups
• Urad Dhall - 1 tspn
• Salt - 2 tspn
• Hot Water - 1 to 2 litre ( until the rice fully covered with water )

Method:

• Wash the rice thoroughly and soak it in hot water for 4 hrs along with urad dhall
• Then grind it nicely in wet grinder ( how we grind for dosai or idli )
• Add salt to the grinded mixture ( if you grind it in night keep it overnight in tupperware  or you can use immediately also )
• In Idli making vessel pour this flour in each idli making plate and allow to cook
• When you insert spoon in the middle of the mixture it should be non sticky that shows it cooked
• ( if it is stickly keep it for some more mts )
• Put this idlis in the sevai making machine ( in tamil sevai nazhi ) and make long thread like sevai
• Plain sevai ready to eat 

Lemon Sevai :

• In a pan heat gingelly oil or sesame oil add mustard seeds, broken urad dhall, a pinch of asafoetida powder, turmeric powder, chopped green chillies, curry leaves and add this mixture to the prapared plain sevai
• Then add lemon juice and salt according to the taste

Dhall Sevai or Paruppu Sevai :

• Take 1 cup of toor dhall, 2 tspn of chenna dhall , 2 tspn of urad dhall and soak in water for 1 hr
• Then grind this mixture in the mixie 
• Cook this mixture in idli plate as mentioned above
• Make it as small nice powder without any clumps by smashing with hand or whip once in mixie
• Heat 2 tablespoon of oil in kadai and add mustard seeds, 1/4 tspn broken urad dhall, asafoetida powder ,
• 2 tspn red chilli powder, salt and mix well
• Add this mixture to the plain sevai and mix well 

Coconut Sevai :

• Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan and add 2 tspn mustard seeds, 3 tspn urad dhall, 4 dried red chillies slightly chopped, 1 tspn asafoetida powder, 3/4 to 1 cup grated coconut , few curry leaves and saute it nicely
• Then mix this along with the plain sevai and add 1 to 2 tspn coconut oil and serve 

Sweet Sevai :

To the Plain sevai add desire amount of sugar and freshly grated coconut ( 1/2 cup coconut 1/2 cup sugar ) and serve ( if need you can add 2 tspn of ghee also )

 

Pepper Sevai :

To  1 cup of plain sevai add 1 tspn of pepper powder, 1/4 tspn of salt and 1 to 2 tspn of ghee and serve

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