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    Home » Recipes » Variety Rice

    Nellikai sadam | Amla rice recipe, Indian gooseberry rice

    October 5, 2015 by Raks Anand 23 Comments / Jump to Recipe

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    Nellikai sadam, amla or Indian gooseberry rice is healthy, delicious as well as easy to prepare rice. Made with the big variety nellikai.

    We always make neer nellikai, thayir pachadi with this one. Recently tried pickle with this nellikai . Recently, when I was chatting with my friend Suji, she told me she made nellikai sadam and I thought I too should try making rice and post it here. Got some fresh amla in Mustafa and made it.

    I remember once I have tried making rice with arai nellikkai, but this is the first time I make it with periya nellikai. My MIL makes nellikkai thogayal by grinding nellikai with green chilli and tamarind. I thought I will try the same combo in rice but by grating the amla and replacing tamarind with lemon (idea adapted from Kamala’s corner). I loved this rice like any other variety rice and going to make often. 

    Nellikai sadam

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    Nellikai sadam recipe

    Nellikai sadam, amla or Indian gooseberry rice is healthy, delicious as well as easy to prepare rice. Made with the big variety nellikai.
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 10 minutes
    Servings 2
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups Cooked rice
    • 4 Nellikai/ amla Big variety
    • 1 & ½ teaspoon Lemon juice
    • ⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida
    • Salt

    To temper

    • 1 tablespoon Ghee or sesame oil
    • ½ teaspoon Mustard
    • 1 teaspoon Urad dal
    • 2 teaspoon Chana dal
    • 2 tablespoon Ground nuts
    • 5 Green chillies
    • 1 Curry leaves sprig
    • 1 Pinch Asafoetida
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    Instructions

    • Pressure cook rice and cool down with little salt and a teaspoon of oil/ ghee. This makes the grains separate.
    • Grate amla in a fine grater.
    • Heat kadai and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order.
    • Once the dal, nuts turns golden, add grated amla and fry for a minute in medium flame.
    • Add required salt, asafoetida and mix well. Switch off the flame, add lemon juice and mix well.
    • Add cooked rice and mix well. Transfer to the serving bowl.

    Notes

    • My amlas were very big, so I used just 3.
    • Adjust green chilli as per the spice level you need and the chilli’s nature.
    • Make sure ground nut is fried in low flame to ensure even cooking and gets crisp.
    • Ghee and sesame oil works best for this rice.
    • You can replace groundnut with cashew nuts.
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    Nellikai sadam method

    1. Pressure cook rice and cool down with little salt and a teaspoon of oil/ ghee. This makes the grains separate.
    2. Grate amla in a fine grater. Heat kadai and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order. nellikai-grate
    3. Once the dal, nuts turns golden, add grated amla and fry for a minute in medium flame. 2-fry
    4. Add required salt, asafoetida and mix well. Switch off the flame, add lemon juice and mix well. 3-lemon
    5. Add cooked rice and mix well. Transfer to the serving bowl. 4-ready

    Notes

    • My amlas were very big, so I used just 3. Adjust green chilli as per the spice level u require and the chilli’s nature.
    • Make sure ground nut is fried in low flame to ensure even cooking and gets crisp.
    • Ghee and smesame oil works best for this rice.
    • You can replace groundnut with cashew nuts.

    I had it with keerai kootu and some fried vadam. You can have it with mix veg kootu also.

    nellikai sadam

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    Comments

    1. Tamilselvi Saravanan

      October 05, 2015 at 10:03 am

      It's looks good and healthy. Surely I will try and update.

      Reply
    2. Tamilselvi Saravanan

      October 05, 2015 at 10:03 am

      It's looks good and healthy. Surely I will try and update.

      Reply
    3. Nivedhanams Sowmya

      October 05, 2015 at 10:17 am

      congrats on being chosen as the top blog... the amla rice looks super flavorful...

      Reply
    4. Subashini

      October 05, 2015 at 10:31 am

      Hi Raji...Hearty congratulations on your blog being chosen as the top blog...you deserve it for your dedicated efforts and amazing photography skills. Wish you many more to come. .

      Reply
    5. shiga s

      October 05, 2015 at 10:35 am

      Even my aunt ll prepare in d same way.. delicious

      Reply
    6. shiga s

      October 05, 2015 at 10:35 am

      Even my aunt ll prepare in d same way.. delicious

      Reply
    7. Harsha Hima

      October 05, 2015 at 10:59 am

      Congrats raks...well deserved 🙂

      Reply
    8. kavitha

      October 05, 2015 at 11:16 am

      You Arabitta sauce is very nice. I tried last weekend, my kids like that very much.Thank you for this nice receipe

      Reply
    9. suba

      October 05, 2015 at 11:23 am

      Congrats raks! Way to go

      Reply
    10. suba

      October 05, 2015 at 11:23 am

      Congrats raks! Way to go

      Reply
    11. Abhirami Lakshmanan

      October 05, 2015 at 11:59 am

      Hearty Congrats Raji!! God bless you!! 🙂 Bookmarked for lunch tomorrow 😉

      Reply
    12. Charus cuisine

      October 05, 2015 at 1:09 pm

      Congrats Rak on being chosen as the top blog in India. ..love yr recipes..

      Reply
    13. Foody Buddy

      October 05, 2015 at 2:55 pm

      Congrats Raks...Nellikai sadam looks so good and delicious, nice clicks

      Reply
    14. sankar saranya

      October 06, 2015 at 11:05 am

      Congrats rak, lunch superb I have bookmarked.

      Reply
    15. Traditionally Modern Food

      October 06, 2015 at 7:42 pm

      Congrts Raks:-) amla Sadam looks simple and yum..

      Reply
    16. Tamilselvi Saravanan

      October 27, 2015 at 10:34 pm

      I made this last week. The taste was awesome with baby corn pepper fry. Thanks for giving such a tasty and healthy receipe

      Reply
    17. preethi krishna

      February 04, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      Raks my cashews changed colour after i added lemon

      Reply
    18. Unknown

      February 07, 2016 at 4:36 am

      Raks my cashews changed colour after i added lemon

      Reply
    19. Yashonath

      September 28, 2020 at 3:35 pm

      I prepared it as mentioned and it turned out to be very nice. Thank you for the instructions.

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        September 30, 2020 at 8:11 am

        Thanks 🙂

        Reply
    20. Supriya

      March 02, 2021 at 3:43 pm

      Hi, have you used raw peanuts or roasted peanuts (வறுத்த வேர்க்கடலை) for this?

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        March 03, 2021 at 7:46 am

        I used roasted ones, but you can also use raw, just that you should add it first before dal and slow roast half way through and then add dals and roast. Hope this helps

        Reply
    21. Supriya

      March 06, 2021 at 1:00 pm

      Thanks for the clear reply!

      Reply

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