Tamilnadu a famous Indian Destination for its deep belief that serving food to others is a service to humanity . The region has a rich cuisine involving both traditional non-vegetarian and vegetarian dishes with profound use of rice, legumes and lentils. Aroma and flavour of food of this region is a rich blending of flavourings and spices including curry leaves, mustard seeds, coriander, ginger, garlic, chili, pepper, cinnamon etc. Ellu Sadam is one such dish prepared with Ellu i.e. “Sesame seeds” and Sadam i.e. “Rice”. With the mild , earthy flavor of sesame seeds , nutty flavor of peanuts and cashew nuts along with spices and curry leaves this one pot meal is an authentic preparation to enjoy with family. This is going to be my dish with alphabet “E” under Regional Cuisine. So let’s start the recipe . Yum
Recipe Source : Uma’s Kitchen Experiments
Ingredients:
4 cups cooked Rice
3 tablespoon white sesame seeds
1 tablespoon Split black gram/urad dal
1 tablespoon split Bengal gram /chana dal
2 tablespoon peanuts
1 tablespoon cashew nuts
5-6 Curry leaves
1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 pinch Asafetida
1 teaspoon Red chilly powder
Salt to taste
Method:
Heat a wok and dry roast sesame seeds , urad dal and chana dal . Cool and grind to form a powder. Set aside. Into the same wok , heat vegetable oil and add mustard seeds , curry leaves , peanuts and cashew nuts . Sauté for 2 minutes.
Ellu sadaam
Add salt and chilly powder. Add cooked rice and grind sesame powder. Mix well and cook for 5 minutes more with frequent stirring.
Elul sadaam
Remove from heat and serve hot.
Ellu sadaam
Serve-3. Cooking time -15 minutes
Note: You may use Clarified butter instead of oil. Leftover rice will be best for this recipe.
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Perfect rice during cold rices.Looks yum
Looks flavourful and delicious..will try soon!
Traditional dish …looks yum !
This Ellu Sadam is beautiful. I'm sure it goes really well with many different main dishes too. 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing.
This is tempting variety rice dear
so flavorful ellu podi sadam!!
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Never heard of this Sapana.. Looks yum.. Will try it for sure 🙂
My all time favorite
Very flavoursome dish Sapana..good one..
Perfect rice……..like that sesame aroma……..
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very beautiful rice dish
Very flavorful and healthy rice… love it have at any time..
Lovely flavourful dish!!1
Dad's fav I love its simplicity yet very flavor ful
Our family favourite rice, serve me anytime i'll have this rice without any hesitation.
One traditional and authentic rice of Tamil NAdu, very nicely done Sapana…
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waiting for more mouthwatering recipes from you dear…
Perfectly made. Love it!
Wonderful rice recipe. Can never have enough of this kind of rice.
This is so delicious. I love rice and this is one thing that will get done soon in my kitchen.
Simple yet flavorful dish. This has become my favorite ever since I tried it during one of the marathons.
must have such a nice nutty flavor
Perfect & yummy rice.. Have to make it soon..
This is one of my favorites 🙂
Very delicious rice which has been one of my fav for so many years…
I made it couple of months ago for BM and loved the earthy taste for this dish. Yumm!!
Such a flavorful rice recipe! Love the ellu flavor in any dish and this one is my absolute favorite 🙂
We call this ellogorai… Nicely made…
I just love ellu saadam. Good to see that you enjoyed too. This looks like such a rich and yummy version with some cashews in it as well
The ellu sadam has come out very nice..
Recipe look amazing and deliciious