PALLI SADDHI
Palli saddhi, a delicious flavored rice with peanut spice mix and rice made especially as an offering for Goddess GOWRI on Saddhula Bathukamma.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 4 cups cooked rice
For spice mix
- ½ cup Peanuts
- 1 tbsp Coriander seeds
- 10 Fenugreek seeds
- 8 Whole dry red chillies
For tempering
- 3 tbsp Cooking oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp Chana dal/Bengal gram dal
- 3 tbsp Peanuts
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
- 4 Green chilies
Instructions
Making peanut spice mix
- Heat a skillet, add peanuts and dry roast on medium flame until they are evenly golden brown.
- Transfer the roasted peanuts to a plate to bring them to room temperature. Later remove the husk of peanuts.
- Now add fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds and roast on low flame until they are nice golden brown. This may take around 2 minutes on medium flame.
- Keep the roasted seeds aside. Add a tbsp of oil to the pan, add torn red chilies and roast for a minute or two.
- Transfer all the roasted spices and peanuts to a blending jar and pulse them to a semi-coarse powder. Keep the peanuts a bit chunky similar to breadcrumbs.
Making the Palli saddhi
- In a mixing bowl add cooked rice, peanut spice mix, salt and give it a good mix.
- Make a tempering of mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, chana dal, peanuts, green chilies, turmeric powder.
- Add the tempering to the rice and give it a good mix.
- Serve the Palli saddhi/Peanut flavored rice with some yogurt and fryums.
