Aroma from My Grandma's Kitchen

A recipe in the non-food blog from a non-foodie person! What better irony required than this!

I am not a foodie nor a great cook (being modest here!). ..But I do experiment them time to time and have unleashed my culinary skulls  skills after marriage.  When you have a bakra, why not experiment them? 

There's this food which I am so fond of since my childhood.  It's a simple, healthy and to me, tastes heavenly.

The recipe I am going to talk about is called "Kadugu Milagai Saadham" (literally means Mustard & Chilli Rice).   It's a rice seasoned with Mustard in Sesame oil, along with fried Curd Chillies with a pinch of salt.   

Ingredients:-

Already prepared rice to be soaked in water, and be left for a day.  In simple, the left out rice of previous night soaked in water overnight - A bowlful

Curd Chillies aka Moru Milagai - handful (5 or 6).  You can get them in grocery shops.  These are the green chillies that are soaked in sour buttermilk for a day and dried under sun for days.  

Mustard seeds - for seasoning (in Sesame oil) 

Sesame oil - 2 t.spoon  

A pinch of salt

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Procedure:-

1. Filter the water from the rice completely

2. Add salt and a bit of sesame oil to the rice, mix and keep them aside.

3. Heat the pan, add sesame oil.  Once the oil is heated, add the Curd chillies  and deep fry until the chillies turn dark brown.  

Note: Frying these chillies may make you choke (even after you finish frying).  So allow enough ventilation. 

4. Keep the fried chillies aside.  In the same pan, season mustard seeds with the remaining oil.  Once they start splitting, turn off the gas. 

5. Add the mustard and a few fried chillies into the rice and mix them nicely (with hand).  Add salt if you want more.  And more fried chillies if you want the rice to be spicy.  

6. Make a big handful of rice on one hand (like a lemon sized ball), and 1 fried chilli on another hand, and relish the food!

And that's Kadugu Milagai Sadham.  

Whenever I go for vacation to my grandma's house, there will be this 20-30 other people showing their hand to get one 'urundai' (ball) from my grandma's hand.  And the competition will be her daughters, son, son-in-laws, daughter-in-law,her brothers and sisters, grandsons and granddaughters!  And all of us just get 1 small size of rice.   

I used to ask my mum to keep some additional rice so that I can have extra handful of this rice :)  

Today, I made them, but there's no-one around to share that with me, except S.  

Anyways, this is not a food that all of them will like, because there is no spice, or masala content in them.  But they are so healthy and tasty. And you feel like having a nap after eating this :)

Try them out!!