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Ellorai |Sesame Seeds Rice |How to make Ellorai

Jul 11, 2020 · Modified: Sep 25, 2021 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

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Ellorai, sesame seeds rice is a quick to make mixed rice/kalanda saadam recipe. A easy to make rice dish that can be packed for lunch box.

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The Festival

The second day of Pongal festival, comes Kanu Pongal, the day , we do pooja for the wellbeing of our brothers and for the unity in the family. 
Pooja will be performed early in the morning. The offering is balls of leftover rice and sarkarai pongal from the previous day. The colorful rice balls, placed neatly on turmeric leafs and offered to the crows.

The Prayer

Kaaka Pidi vachen, kannu pidi vachen, kaakai ellam kalyanam, un kootam polave en kootamum othumaya vazhanum

காக்கா பிடி வைத்தேன், கண்ணு பிடி வைத்தேன், காக்கை எல்லாம் கல்யாணம். உன் கூட்டம் போலவே என் கூட்டமும் ஒற்றுமையா வாழணும்.

It roughly translates to, here i touch/offer these colorful rice balls to you crows, i wish my family always stay united, just like yours. After the pooja, we need to bath  and eat the leftover rice, not the one offered to crows, there will be some leftover rice kept separately for breakfast. We usually have it along with curd.  

Ellorai podi

While discussing this tradition with sangeeta khanna, she enlightened me that seasonal changes causes good gut bacteria in these leftover food. Traditions like these prepare our body well for the oncoming change in the air. 

Unfortunately, many don't value these traditions much these days, we simply shut them off and it ends abruptly. Our grandparents were definitely wiser than the doctors now. Let us try to follow some of the old eating habits and free ourselves a bit from trouble.

The Food

Mixed rices, also known as variety rice , called kalanda saadam in tamil. the word Kalanda means to mix, Saadam, means rice. Kalanda Saadam, means mixed rice.

Mixed/variety rice recipes, like lemon rice, coconut rice, Ellorai, puliyodharai and aviyal, will be the menu for the day. My normal menu is coconut rice, lemon rice and some aviyal for side. This year, I wanted to try a different mixed rice .

Ellorai/Sesame seeds mixed rice, is a pretty easy rice to make, you can make the spice powder ahead and store in the fridge. If storing, i would recommend not more than a week, spice powder will lose its aroma and vigor if stored for long.

Ellorai

The Ingredients

  • Sesame seeds, the star ingredient of this recipe. I have used a combination of both white and black sesame seeds in the recipe.
  • I suggest using black sesame a little bit more as it would it give a deep color to the rice. Sesame seeds are rich in calcium, so i try to use them as much as possible in my cooking
  • Dal, I have used both chana dal and black gram in the recipe. I prefer using skinned urad dal. If using urad dal with skin it might change the color of the spice powder. You can use either whole or split ones.
  • Coriander seeds, add a nice nutty aroma to the spice powder.
  • Chilies, i have used red chilies round variety to spice the powder.

Ellorai |Sesame Seeds Rice - Mixed Rice, Lunch Box recipe

Ellorai, sesame seeds rice is a quick to make mixed rice recipe. A easy to make rice dish that can be packed for lunch box.
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: a quick to make rice recipe, Kalanda saadham, Mixed rice recipe, Sesame rice recipe, Sesame seeds rice
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 2
Calories:

Ingredients

For the spice powder

  • ¼ cup urad dal split black gram dal
  • 2 tablespoon chana dal
  • ¼ cup black sesame seeds
  • 2 tablespoon white sesame seeds
  • 8-10 nos red chilies i used round variety
  • 2 tablespoon coriander seeds dhaniya vathal
  • ¼ teaspoon hing/asafoetida
  • 1 teaspoon salt or to taste

To Make Rice

  • 1 cup cooked rice white/brown/matta
  • 3 tablespoon Sesame seeds spice powder/Ellorai powder

For tempering

  • 1 teaspoon gingely oil
  • ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds/kadugu
  • 1-2 nos red chilies
  • ¼ teaspoon urad dal
  • 3 tablespoon broken cashewnuts/peanuts/almonds
  • a sprig of curry leaf

Instructions

  • Dry roast every ingredient given under spice powder, separately except hing and salt.
  • Let them cool well. Grind them along with hing and salt into a  fine powder using a mixer.

To Make the Rice

  • Spread the cooked rice on a flat plate and fluff it up with a fork.
  • In a tadka pan, heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, add chili, curry leaves, urad dal and cashewnuts. Let the dal and nut brown a bit. Take it off the stove.
  • Add the sizzling tadka to rice, mix well. Add ellorai powder/sesame seeds spice powder and mix well.
  • Check the taste, adjust salt, if needed. Serve or pack  with your favorite curry for a delicious meal.

Disclaimer

I m not a Doctor or a Nutritionist The Nutrition information provided above comes from the plugin and is only an estimate.

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Ellorai powder

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  1. Unknown

    January 25, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    I love this ellupodi rice. Some how in my house they dont make it very often. Rice looks really great.

    Reply
  2. Traditionally Modern Food

    January 25, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    My fav rice:-) yum

    Reply
  3. Rafeeda AR

    January 26, 2016 at 4:35 am

    A very interesting variety of rice... flavorful..

    Reply
  4. Priya Suresh

    January 26, 2016 at 9:08 am

    My kind of food, can have it everyday without any fuss.

    Reply
  5. cookingwithsapana

    January 26, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    Love sesame seeds rice.Looks very delicious Priya.

    Reply
  6. Pavani

    January 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Such a delicious and nutritious sesame rice. Looks amazing.

    Reply
  7. Srividhya

    January 26, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Amazing clicks. Love the ellu podi. great

    Reply
  8. sushma

    January 28, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    Love this podi, am a big fav of these spice powders.

    Reply
  9. Nisha

    January 29, 2016 at 1:37 pm

    It's been ages since I made this. Should make it soon. One of my favorite rice and good to know the reasoning behind our tradition.

    Reply
  10. vaishali sabnani

    January 29, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    Very interesting to read about the festival details . The rice and the podi both look great .

    Reply
  11. Harini R

    February 05, 2016 at 2:14 am

    Love it. I love the mortar n pestle in the picture 🙂

    Reply
  12. Chef Mireille

    February 10, 2016 at 2:35 am

    I love learning about the different cultural traditions

    Reply

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