Ulundu Sevai using Ready to Cook Rice Sevai (Noodles)

Rice Sevai is popular in Tamil Nadu. Different types of sevais like Ellu Sevai, Lemon Sevai, Coconut Sevai are prepared with rice sevai.

Here I prepared an authentic ‘Ulundu Sevai’ using ready to cook rice sevai. It is a mix of cooked rice sevai and spiced urad dal. As this sevai is a combination of rice and dal with less oil and spices, it suits well as a healthy breakfast or even as a snack.

Serves: 4 to 6

Cooking time: 30 minutes approximately

Ingredients

• Ready to cook Rice Sevai – 200 gm
• Skinned black gram or urad dal – 1 cup
• Green chilli – 2 no
• Red chilli – 2 no
• Ginger – small piece
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tea spoon
• Asafetida powder – ⅛th of tea spoon
• Salt – as per taste
• For seasoning
  • Mustard – ½ tea spoon
  • Urad dal – ½ tea spoon
  • Curry leaves – few
  • Oil – 1 table spoon

Method

Step 1

• Soak urad dal for one hour and grind with red chilli, green chilli, ginger, salt, asafetida powder and turmeric to a coarse thick paste using less water; steam it like idli for 8 to10 minutes; allow it to cool and crumble it nicely.

Step 2

• Cook rice sevai as per the instructions given by the manufacturer.

Step 3

• Now do the seasonings in a pan, add crumbled urad dal mix and fry for few minutes only as this is already cooked; switch off gas, mix with cooked rice sevai.

• Serve hot with any chutney.

Tips

Wet grind urad dal with spices coarsely.

This post is part of the event “WYF: Specialty food” hosted by Simple Indian Food.