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    Home » Recipes » Variety Rice

    Ellu sadam recipe, Sesame rice | Kaanum pongal recipes

    January 15, 2014 by Raks Anand 15 Comments / Jump to Recipe

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    Learn how to make south Indian ellu sadam, sesame rice. Easy and flavorful, can make quickly and healthy too. With step by step picture.

    For this kaanum pongal 2014, I am posting this long time pending post – ellu sadam recipe (sesame rice recipe). I had included ellu sadam in my aadi perukku lunch menu and said that I will post the recipe soon. And this is the right time to post, otherwise I will forget again🙄. I started loving ellu sadam when I was in hostel. Every Saturday, my roommates and myself will go to the nearby temple in our hostel campus and used to help the priest there in cleaning the temple and other things. After pooja, he used to give us a bucket full of ellu sadam and we used to carry it to our hostel and distribute to our hostellers and then have ourselves too. He brings it from home to offer God and distribute as prasadam.

    As Saturday most of the girls will be sleeping and only very few will go to temple, he used to give it to us and ask to distribute. And it will be tasting so divine obviously! The recipe will be so simple with just sesame and red chill roasted and ground coarsely, mixed with rice. But the burst of flavours cannot be explained. That too for a hosteller, you can imagine how great a home made food would mean. It feels just it happened last year. I won't make ellu sadam that often, maybe I have done 3-4 times in my life. I love it, still no one else at home eats, so I give it least priority. This time, I wanted to post, so made it and enjoyed myself ☺. Here’s the simple recipe, that could be useful for tomorrow’s Kaanum pongal rice varieties.
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    ellu sadam

    Learn how to make south Indian ellu sadam, sesame rice. Easy and flavorful, can make quickly and healthy too. With step by step picture.
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 15 minutes
    Servings 3
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 2&½ tablespoon Black or white sesame
    • 1 cup Rice
    • 6 Red chilli
    • 1 teaspoon Urad dal
    • Salt
    • 1 tablespoon Sesame oil

    To temper

    • 1 teaspoon Oil
    • ½ teaspoon Mustard
    • 1 teaspoon urad dal
    • 1 Curry leaves sprig
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    Instructions

    • Cook rice with 2 cups of water for 4 whistles.Once done, transfer to a mixing bowl, add salt and sesame oil. Mix gently and cool the rice.
    • First roast urad dal and red chillies in a teaspoon of oil. Then roast the sesame seeds until it pops. When in starts popping, put the flame to low and keep stirring. When the popping stops, stop roasting too.
    • Cool down and first grind urad dal and chilli coarsely. Then add the sesame seeds.
    • Use inch/ pulse button and grind to a coarse powder. You can temper in the same kadai you roast and transfer to the mixing bowl.
    • Add the tempered items and powdered item to the rice and mix gently.

    Notes

    • You can use white sesame seeds too, but I love the black sesame seeds colour for this rice.
    • My MIL said we can add a tablespoon of coconut too. Give it a roast along with urad dal.
    • You can add broken cashews too while tempering to make it rich.
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    Ellu sadam method:

      1. Cook rice with 2 cups of water for 4 whistles.Once done, transfer to a mixing bowl, add salt and sesame oil. Mix gently and cool the rice.
      2. First roast urad dal and red chillies in a teaspoon of oil. Then roast the sesame seeds until it pops. When in starts popping, put the flame to low and keep stirring. When the popping stops, stop roasting too.howtostep1-roast
      3. Cool down and first grind urad dal and chilli coarsely. Then add the sesame seeds.howtostep2-grind
      4. Use inch/ pulse button and grind to a coarse powder. You can temper in the same kadai you roast and transfer to the mixing bowl.howtostep3-temper
      5. Add the tempered items and powdered item to the rice and mix gently.ellu sadam ready

    Enjoy with some fried vadams or fryums. I can eat as such 🙂 sesame-rice-recipe

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Anonymous

      January 15, 2014 at 12:38 pm

      Love it with vadaams. Drooling..

      Reply
    2. Ruchi Indu

      January 15, 2014 at 1:22 pm

      What a coincidence.... This year my addition was also ellu saadam to kaanum pongal recipe special 🙂
      But I am yet to update the recipe. Cool pics!!!!

      Reply
    3. Shama Nagarajan

      January 15, 2014 at 3:11 pm

      super rice raji

      Reply
    4. Sathya Priya

      January 15, 2014 at 4:15 pm

      This rice def is awesome and it taste good .

      Reply
    5. Veena Theagarajan

      January 16, 2014 at 1:42 am

      our fav rice.. looks yum

      Reply
    6. AparnaRajeshkumar

      January 16, 2014 at 3:47 am

      this is one of my favorite raks.. i will die esp if they serve in temple

      Reply
    7. suganya ram

      January 16, 2014 at 6:37 am

      Hi Raks, Thanks for the wonderful recipe. I love all ur recipes & presentation. Please post sweet Poli recipe for me.

      Reply
    8. divya

      January 16, 2014 at 3:06 pm

      Delicious, Drooling here

      Reply
    9. Wer SAHM

      January 17, 2014 at 10:39 am

      very appetizing spicy ,tasty rice .....

      Reply
    10. SONIYA SREE

      August 19, 2014 at 12:32 am

      We can make the poodi the previous day itself and the next day we can just mix with the rice by this way it will be more easier on the festival days. ....

      Reply
    11. madhu anvekar

      February 17, 2016 at 9:50 am

      Looks yummy !

      Reply
    12. Gokila Chandran

      July 26, 2016 at 9:56 am

      Hi raks.. this one looks very delicious.. pls do tell me if i can store the podi for some days..?

      Reply
    13. Gokila Chandran

      July 26, 2016 at 9:56 am

      Hi raks.. Can we store this podi..? if yes for how many days..?

      Reply
    14. Raks anand

      July 26, 2016 at 10:01 am

      Yes, may be a week in fridge

      Reply
    15. Jayanthi Raman

      February 27, 2017 at 2:52 pm

      Simple and tasty rice 🙂

      Reply

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