Thengai sadham

Ingredients:

• Raw Rice - 1 cup
• coconut - 1 cup
• Salt - to taste
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Green chillies - 3
• Curry leaves - 3 strings
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Bengal gram dhal (Kadalai Paruppu) - 2 tsp
• Cashew Nuts - 6 to 10
• Red chillies - 2
• Ghee - 1 sp

Method:

Cook rice with little salt, drain and spread in a plate. add a dash of oil so that the rice do not stick.

In a kadai heat oil and season with mustard, Bengal gram dhal, curry leaves, chopped green chillies, red chillies sauté for a minute.

Then add the grated coconut and toss it will. add the salt.

Put this mixture to the rice and toss well.

Fry cashew in ghee and add to it.

Note: you can also add 1/2 spoon of very finely chopped ginger. since coconut is heavy ginger will help in digestion how ever many may not like chewing ginger.