Sesame Rice | Ellu Anna Recipe
Ingredients
- Uncooked rice- 1/2 cup
- Peanuts- 1/8 cup
- Black sesame seeds- 2 tsp
- Tamarind- Small lemon sized
- Salt- 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
- Green chilly- 1 no. Adjust to taste
Seasoning ingredients
- Cooking oil- 5 tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Split black gram lentils- 1/2 tsp
- Chick pea lentils- 1 tsp
- Curry leaves- Few
- Red chillies 2 nos.
Instructions
Preparation
- Soak tamarind in warm water for 10 minutes. Wash and rinse rice with enough water, pressure cook it with 3 cups of water for 3 whistles and in simmer for 5 minutes. Let the rice cool down to room temperature.
Method
- Heat a cooking pan with oil, mustard seeds, lentils, curry leaves and red chilly. Saute till the mustard splutter and pop, then include slit green chillies and peanuts. After a minute or two, add squeezed tamarind extract. Discard it's residue. Let tamarind extract cook for a while.
- Meanwhile dry roast the sesame seeds and powder it coarsely. Add this powder, turmeric powder and salt to the pan and combine well.
- Next include cooked rice and mix, so that rice gets coated with all the flavors and spices.
- Very easy sesame rice is ready to serve with fryums and papad.
Notes
- Follow your method of cooking rice because the water ratio varies with quality and type of rice.
- You can add few cashew nuts to the seasoning for enriched taste.
- Either white sesame seeds or black sesame seeds can be used as per your preferences.
- I have used green chillies for spice, you can use red chilly too. In that case grind one or two roasted red chillies with sesame seeds.
- This wonderful rice can be whipped up using leftover rice too.