Being a south Indian, having a variety of easy and quick rice recipes in my repertoire always comes handy during time constraints. Though I try to include veggies and/or dal in rice dishes, there are times when I neither have patience nor the time to do the prep work. This simple, quick and delicious ellu sadam is one of the answers during that kind of scenarios. I have seen this recipe plenty of times in several blogs featuring Tamil food. I read some where that this dish is offered as neivedyam.
Recently I tried only a small quantity to see how it is received by my family and also as I was skeptical since sesame seeds is the only key ingredient of the recipe. It was delicious and surprisingly, my husband liked it the most. To say the least, I was regretting that I made it in a small quantity. And so it was prepared again a couple of days later. :)
Ingredients: (2 servings)
1/2 cup rice or 1 cup cooked rice
Salt to taste
1 Tbsp sesame seeds
1 tsp urad dal / skinned black gram
6 dried red chillies or as needed (I used Byadagi chillies.)
For tadka:
1 Tbsp oil, 2 Tbsp peanuts, 1 tsp urad dal, few curry leaves and a generous pinch of asafoetida
Method:
* Cook rice adding double quantity of water in a pressure cooker / rice cooker.
* Add urad dal to a pan and roast on low flame. When it starts to change a shade darker, add sesame seeds and red chillies. Toast until urad dal turns slightly brown and sesame seeds start to crackle and turns a few shades darker. Let cool and grind them fine.
* Heat oil in a saute pan or a small kadai. Add peanuts and urad dal. When urad dal starts to turn reddish, add curry leaves and asafoetida. Stir the tadka mixture once and add the ground sesame powder, salt and cooked rice. Mix well and just heat through until rice is warm.
Notes:
* Use preferably south Indian style rice like sona masuri.
* Black and/or white sesame seeds can be used. I used white sesame seeds.
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Comments
delicious ellu sadam.
ReplyDeleteDelicious and colorful looking rice. Looks wonderful.
ReplyDeleteDeepa
Sesame rice is our all time favourite, i do quite often and you have done prefectly.
ReplyDeleteI loved making this sesame rice. So easy to make and it tastes great too.
ReplyDeleteThis should be really yum.Love the sesame flavor and the idea of grinding it.a must try asap:)
ReplyDeleteLove the color of the rice. It is inviting. I never tried sesame rice before. Looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteBookmarked to try later. Looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteflavorfull and perfect for lunch box nice one
ReplyDeletewow lovely colour, my favorite prasadham in temples :)
ReplyDeleteI like these sort of mixed rices...looks very inviting Suma..
ReplyDeleteAwesome clicks. Amma used to make this rice often but like you I am not sure my family will like. Will make a little and see. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYumm..looks very fiery and tempting!
ReplyDeletea great dish to have in the repertoire
ReplyDeleteLooks delicious! I love using rice in this way!
ReplyDeleteI usually get inspiration from Tilda BAsmati on their recipe page http://www.tilda.com/public-recipe-category/dry think you'll like it!
Delicious. . . . Umm umm
ReplyDeleteYummy yummy, i also want to eat :-(
ReplyDeleteYummm :-P i m also trying to cook this.
ReplyDeleteawesome recepie of rice nice one.
ReplyDeleteGate Opener
oh yummy rice with so much goodness,
ReplyDeletedelicious :-)
Oh suma,it's been long time u haven't posted anything.that was quite an unusual long break in this blog.hope everything is well .waiting for a post soon:-)
ReplyDeleteHi Suma,
ReplyDeleteVisiting after a long time away -- your last few rice dishes are fantastic! :) Best wishes from the North Woods!
Cool!
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