Thengai pal sadham

Ingredients

• Rice(for better result use basmathi) --1 Cup
• Coconut Milk                                -- 3 Cups     
• Salt                                               -- to taste

Tempering

• Ghee                        --2 Tbspn
• Cardamom               -- 2
• Cinnamon stick         --1 small piece
• Cloves                      --4
• Sombu                      --1 tspn
• Bay Leaf (brinji ilai)   -- 1

Recipe

• Soak rice for half an hour.
• Heat 2 Tbsp of ghee is a pan, fry Sombu,bay leaf,cloves,cinnamon stick & cardamon.
• Add the soaked rice,salt and stir well. 
• Add 3 cups of coconut milk stir a while and pressure cook upto 2 whistle.
• Serve hot with chenna masala or malai gofta.

Sesame Rice

Lemon Rice

Ingrdients

• Lemon            -2 nos
• Cooked Rice  -1 Cup
• Turmeric Powder - 1 tspn
• Oil
• Salt

Tempering

• Mustrad seeds     -1 tspn
• Red/Green Chilly - 3 nos
• Curry Leaves      - 2 Tbspn
• Bengal gram        -2 Tbspn
• Urad dal              -1 tspn
• Asafoetida      -1 tspn

Garnishingt

• Coriander Leaves  -  2 Tbspn(finely chopped)
• Grated Carrot       -   2 Tbspn
• Grated Ginger       -   2 Tbspn

Recipe

• Heat oil in a deep bottomed pan.
• Add mustrad seeds when it start to splutter add asafetida, dried red chilies cut into two,curry leaves, urad dal and bengal gram.
• Cook until dals change color to light brown.
• Next, add turmeric powder and stir well.
• Add cooked rice, salt and lemon juice. Mix well very gently so that the rice grains do not break.
• Garnish with grated carrot,ginger and finely chopped corainder leaves.
• Serve Hot with Potato fry or Raw banana(vazhaikai) fry or pickles.