Kothamalli sadam recipe
Easy No onion garlic Coriander leaves rice with simple ingredients, perfect for lunch box
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups cooked rice
- 1 handful of coriander leaves
- 1 green chili
- Salt as needed
- 1/2 lemon
- ¼ tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp water
- 3 tsp oil
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp ghee
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 2 tsp urad dal
- Few cashew nuts
- Few curry leaves
Instructions
- In a mixie jar add the coriander leaves, green chili, little salt, lemon juice, 1 tbsp water and sugar.
- We are adding sugar to retain the color of the coriander leaves. If you don’t want feel free to skip it.
- Grind this into a smooth paste.
- Put the ground paste in a tea strainer for 5 minutes, to remove the extra water.
- You can use this water while making rasam or add this to a ladle of dosa batter or add this while making chapati dough.
- In a wide bowl add the rice and 1 tsp sesame oil and salt.
- Spread this and allow this to cool completely.
- In a pan add 3 tsp oil and 1 tsp ghee.
- Add the mustard seeds, urad dal and red chili.
- Saute this till the urad dal becomes golden brown.
- Add the cashew nuts and saute till it gets roasted.
- Switch off and add the curry leaves.
- Add the coriander paste to the rice.
- Add this tempering to the rice.
- Mix well gently and evenly without mashing the rice.
- Kothamalli sadam | coriander rice is ready.
- Serve with aviyal or appalam or vadam.
Notes
- You can make the same with mint leaves, but lessen the number of mint leaves as they will be strong.
- You can replace cashew nuts with peanuts too.
- You can replace rice with millet or rice sevai.
- Kothamalli sadam | coriander leaves rice pair well with Aviyal or Potato curry too.
