🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Ellu Sevai

Name: Ellu Sevai
Prep time: 14 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 24 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 1, finely chopped Onion; 1 tbsp, minced Ginger; 2, slit Green Chili; 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Mustard Seeds; 2 sprigs Curry Leaves; 1/2 Lemon; 1 cup Vermicelli; 1 tsp Sesame Seeds

🇮🇳 Indian

Sesame vermicelli, nutty Tamil breakfast twist. The 20-minute breakfast that has fed half a billion mornings. Serve warm with coconut chutney on the side.

Prep 14 min Cook 10 min Serves 3 Easy

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Onion1, finely chopped
Ginger1 tbsp, minced
Green Chili2, slit
Turmeric Powder1/4 tsp
Vegetable Oil2 tbsp
Mustard Seeds1 tsp
Curry Leaves2 sprigs
Lemon1/2
Vermicelli1 cup
Sesame Seeds1 tsp

Optional extras

Fresh Cilantro2 tbsp, chopped

Instructions

1
Prepare the vermicelli: roast if it's rava, rinse if it's poha, soak if it needs it.
2
Splutter mustard seeds, tip in the curry leaves and chilies, and let the oil get fragrant.
3
Fry the onions till soft and translucent, add ginger and turmeric; two minutes more.
4
Tumble in the sesame seeds and the vermicelli, sprinkle salt, and toss everything through the fragrant oil.
5
Rest covered off the heat for five minutes, fluff, and top with the curry leaves and a hard squeeze of lemon.

Chef's tip

For poha, rinse and drain — never soak — or it collapses.

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