Sesame Rice I Ellu Sadam
Sesame Rice -A delicious and flavorful rice preparation with roasted sesame ,peanuts and basic spices
Servings: 4 person
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice
- Salt / Namak
- 3 tbsp Peanuts / Moongphali
- 2 Green chili/hari mirch chopped
- To Taste Salt / Namak
- 1 tsp lemon juice optional
Tadka/ Tempering
- 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai *
- Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 3 tbsp Cooking oil or ghee
- 1 tsp White lentil/urad daal
- few Curry Leaves
- dried whole red chilies
- 1 tsp Bengal gram /chana daal
For Making Sesame Powder/ Ellu Podi
- 3 tbsp sesame seeds /til
- 1 tbsp White lentil/urad daal
- 2 Dried Red Chilli, Whole
- pinch Asafoetida / Hing powder
- Few Curry Leaves
Instructions
- Soak rice in enough water and then drain the water and boil rice in enough water till done. do add some salt while boiling.
- you can also cook the rice in a pot, rice cooker or pressure cooker. Or leftover rice can also be used for making this recipe.
- let the rice cool down completely.
- In a heavy bottom pan add the sesame seeds and roast on low heat till they start to crackle. you can either use white sesame or use half black and half sesame seeds. take out in a plate and let them cool down.
- In the same pan roast both the dal till nice golden in colour.
- Dry roast the dried red chilies, break the whole chilies in 2 -3 pieces before roasting.
- Now add the curry leaves and roast till they become crisp. switch off the flame and then add the asafoetida and stir for few seconds. take out in a plate to cool.
- In the mixture jar add the roasted lentils and the red chilies and grind to make a coarse powder.
- Now add in the curry leaves and the roasted sesame seeds and grind again to make a coarse powder.
- In a pan add 4 tbsp of ghee or oil and add the peanuts and fry on low heat till they become golden and start crackling, remove them from the pan. Instead of peanuts you can use cashews too.
- Now in the same pan add the tempering ingredients- mustard seeds, cumin, urad daal, chana daal, chopped green chilies, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Add the cooked rice and the prepared sesame seed powder and stir to mix .
- Add the peanuts in the rice and mix well.
- Serve Ellu Sadam with crisp papad , curd and salad
- Enjoy !