Ellu Sadam Recipe(jan 2021)

• 🍴2 tablespoon grated jaggery
• 🍴1 handful curry leaves
• 🍴salt as required
• 🍴1/2 cup urad dal
• 🍴1/2 cup sesame seeds
• 🍴6 broken and deseeded dry red chili
• 🍴2 cup rice
• 🍴1 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 🍴4 teaspoon sesame oil
• 🍴water as required

• 🍴Wash and soak rice

To begin with, take rice and wash it under running water. Next, fill the rice bowl with enough water to submerge them. Then, let soak for about 2 hours. In a separate bowl, wash and soak urad dal.

• 🍴Boil rice
  

Once done, drain the water. Take a deep bottomed pan, transfer the rice in the pan and fill it yet again with enough water and boil until tender. Once the rice is cooked drain the water and keep the rice aside.

• 🍴Toss the sesame seeds
  

In the meanwhile, place a pan on medium flame, put white sesame seeds, and dry roast for not more than a minute. Next, transfer the seeds to a grinder and grind them into a fine powder.

• 🍴Toss the spices
  

Then, add some oil to the same pan, add mustard seeds along with urad dal and red chilies once the oil is heated. Once the seeds start to splutter, add curry leaves and saute for a while.

• 🍴Add cooked rice and enjoy
  

Once done, add the cooked rice along with the prepared white sesame seed powder and stir well until fragrant. Serve hot. Garnish the way you like and enjoy with some chutney and Sambhar.