Sankranthi is a major Harvest Festival celebrated in India. Everytime it was soo much fun celebrating this festivals with flying kites and eating dishes specially made of sesame seeds and jaggery. Sankranthi comes in winter season and one needs to take food that generates heat in the body so it is said that sesame and jaggery provide enough heat to the body during winters.
Today i wanted to share a special Sankranthi dish that is Rice Pudding made of jaggery and sesame seeds powder.. lets begin
SESAME RICE PUDDING
SERVES : 4 , PREPARATION TIME : 25MINS
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 cup Rice
- 2 cups Water
- 1 cup Jaggery ( if u want more sweetness u can add more)
- 3 Teaspoon Sesame Seeds
- 1 Tablespoon Ghee
- 1/2 Teaspoon Cardamom powder
- 2 Tablespoon roasted Dry nuts
- Soak rice for 15 minutes.
- Dry roast Sesame seeds and grind them to fine powder.
- Take a pan add ghee on medium flame. Remove water from soaked rice and fry them in ghee for a minute.
- Add water to rice and allow it to boil. Cook rice completly till its done.(do not add jaggery before your rice is completly cooked, adding jaggery before will not allow the rice to cook)
- Add jaggery to cooked rice n let it melt in the rice,keep stiring in between. Always adding crushed jaggery will make it easier but here i have added it as whole without crushing hence i added little water to it so that it wont get burned.
- After jaggery melting completly add sesame seeds powder and mix it and cook it for 1-2 minutes.
- Lastly add cardamom powder and dry nuts.If you want more richness just top it of with some more ghee and your Rice pudding is all Ready to serve.
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