One pot dishes are so convenient any time of the day. Being a South Indian most of my dishes revolve around rice, so a lot of one pot dishes I make are with rice. If I have leftover rice, it gets transformed into some kind of one-pot rice dish the next day. I’m sure all South Indians would probably say the same thing. Talking about rice lovers, I had an American co-worker who didn’t like rice at all and I couldn’t even imagine what it would be like without eating rice.
Today’s rice dish is a new combination for me. I’ve never made a rice dish with bittergourd before. I saw the recipe on a Telugu Cooking show and the combination of bittergourd, sesame seeds and rice sounded very interesting. I was pleasantly pleased how good the dish turned out to be and was even more happy when the husband really really liked it.
Kakarakaya Nuvvulannam (Bitter gourd-Sesame Rice)
Ingredients
- 2 cups Rice - cooked (I used basmati, but any cooked rice that is not mushy will work here)
- ¼ cup Sesame seeds
- 2 chilies Dry red
- - 3 cloves Garlic
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- 8 ~ 10 Curry leaves
- 3 chilies Green - slit
- to taste Salt
Instructions
- Boil or microwave kakarakaya along with salt and 2tbsp yogurt until tender. Squeeze out the water and set aside until ready to use.
- Dry roast sesame seeds and dry red chilies until lightly golden. Turn off the heat and add garlic cloves. Let the mixture cool a little bit and then grind into a powder along with some salt.
- Heat 2tbsp oil in a pan; add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Once the seeds start to splutter, add curry leaves and boiled bittergourd and cook until bittergourd starts to turn lightly browned around the edges.
- Add the cooked rice, ground sesame powder and salt. Mix well and cook for 2 minutes. Serve hot.
Notes
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like the use of sesame seeds in this
Global Tastes & Travels Inc.
like the use of sesame seeds in this
Priya Srinivasan
that is one interesting recipe!!! must been very flavorful with sesame n garlic!!!
Poornima Molri
this one is really interesting and new to me… will try for sure as im a great lover of one pot meals..
Arthy shama
Bittergourd-sesame rice looks delecious 🙂 and yes, at our home also left-over rice is next day’s target 😛
Suja Ilangovan
Bitter gourd rice is new to me. Interesting 🙂
Nalini's Kitchen
Making one pot meal with bittergourd sounds inviting,looks so delicious.
Suma Gandlur
Interesting one.I was just wondering whether this dish doesn’t need even a tiny bit of sweetener because of the bitter gourd and sesame seeds used?
Pavani N
Hi Suma, I guess adding jaggery would be nice, but since there is no tamarind or sourness in the dish I didn’t really miss it.
Srivalli
Though I love one pot meals, can’t imagine cooking with bitter gourd!..:)..still that’s a good one..