This is a very simple rice variety. We can make this for aadi perukku and Kannu pongal too. Recently we had a week of Kanda Shasti celebrations at the Hindu temple in Hongkong. I went everyday evening. Daily one of us will be taking a prasadam to the temple. I was asked to bring samba sadam on one of the days. After neivedyam we all had a spoon of it. Everyone loved it so much and asked me whether I have this recipe on my website. Since it is a very basic recipe, I never thought of posting this one. But later realized, that I should document this here. This will be helpful for others and also for me for future reference, especially for measurements. You can pack this for lunch box too and pair this with simple kootu or aviyal or a raita too. I used raw rice for this recipe. For neivedyam we usually use raw rice, also called pacharisi. You can make this with parboiled rice or basmati rice or the aromatic seeraga samba rice too. You can make this for Navaratri neivedyam too. Also instead of rice, you can use millets for making this samba sadam Also check out other no onion no garlic, lemon rice recipe, kadugu sadam, kopparai sadam and thakkali sadam recipe
Pressure ½ cup rice with 1 cup of water for 4 whistles. Spread this on a plate and cool this well.Let this not be mushy.
In a pan add the black pepper and roast it.When it starts popping up, switch off the flame and add the cumin seeds.Let this roast for few seconds.Add 3-4 curry leaves.
Once it is cool, pulse this into a coarse powder.
In the same pan add ghee and oil.Add the mustard seeds, when it starts spluttering add the urad dal and cashew nuts.When they turn golden brown, switch off the flame.Add few chopped curry leaves, this is optional.
Add the coarsely ground pepper cumin powder to the rice.The quantity was perfect. If you want you can powder a little more and use it in rasam, later.Now add this tempering | thallipu to the rice.Add salt.
Mix everything well and evenly.If you want to get the exact texture as how we get in the temple, slightly mash the rice using the back of the ladle.
Samba sadam is ready to serve.You can pack this for a lunch box. This pairs well with any raita, vadam , aviyal, and kootu.
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