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sesame seed rice /ellu podi sadam

Total Time 25 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • Cooked rice - 2 cups
  • Oil - 1/2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 11/2 tsp
  • Kadalaparuppu/Bengal gram dal - 3 tsp
  • Uluthamparuppu /Urad dal - 3 tsp
  • Black Sesame seeds/Ellu - 4 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Gingelly oil to mix with rice - 1-2 tbsp
  • asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
  • Dry red chillies - 3-4 taken non spicy variety

Instructions
 

  • First cook rice add Gingelly oil to it and spread in a wide vessel and set aside.
  • Dry roast Sesame seeds and when it splutters take out and keep separately.
  • In the same pan add oil,mustard,bengal and urad dal with chillies.
  • When mustard splutters and dals change colour switch off and add hing to it.
  • Now grind tempered dal items with sesame seeds and grind to a powder.
  • While grinding itself add salt needed for rice and grind.
  • Add the required amount of ellu podi to rice and mix thoroughly and serve.

Notes

Its not needed that powder should be fine it can be little course.
While mixing rice always add Gingelly oil for more flavour.
You can use black ellu too instead of white.
You can try it with Samai,varagu or any other millet.