Monday 23 January 2012

Ananya's Spicy and Easy Sesame Rice ( Ellu Sadham )



Ingredients:

  • Rice - 1 cup
  • White Sesame Seeds ( Vellai Ellu ) - 100 gms
  • Dry Red Chilli - 5 nos (  more or less depends on spicyness required )
  • Urad Dal - 1 tblspn
  • Asafoetida  - a pinch
  • Salt - to taste
  • Sesame (gingelly) Oil  - 1 tblspn
  • Mustard Seed - 1/2 tspn
  • Curry leaves - few nos

Method:

  • Cook the rice as separate strands, add 3 tspn sesame oil to the rice mix well and keep it aside
  • Soak sesame seed in water for 5 to 10 mins, then drain the water by filter and keep aside
  • In a empty pan fry urad dal, red chilli, when dal becomes slight brown take them and cool it
  • In the same pan add and saute, when sesame seeds starts bursting ( pop out sound will come ) add asafoetida and transfer it to another bowl  and  cool down
  • Then grind it in a mixie by adding salt to fine powder
  • Add this powder to the cooked rice as required and stir it till sesame powder and rice mixes well
  • Heat 1 tspn of gingelly oil in a kadai add mustard seed after it burst add curry leaves and pour over the sesame rice
  • Serve the Spicy and Easy Sesame Rice with fried Pappad or Vadams..
  • You can store this powder in a airtight container for long time



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