I just got back from a fabulous holiday at Thailand. The only sad part of a holiday is that it always comes to an end. Anyways, I decided to cook something easy today as I have so much many other work which have piled up. I remembered how my mom used to make this Avakai Oorugai Sadam and serve it with onion raita and papadam. So, I finally prepared this spicy pickled rice for lunch today.
I still have the stock of Avakai Oorugai which I prepared few months back. You can click here to check the recipe. These pickles always come handy whether you want to enjoy it with some roti or make an easy one pot meal. You will love the taste of spicy mango pickle in every bite. So, until I settle down from my trip to Thailand, enjoy this one pot Pickled Vegetable Rice today and wish you all a great week ahead.
Avakai Oorugai Sadam - Pickled Vegetable Rice
Ingredients
- Raw rice - 1 cup
- Avakai Oorugai/pickle brine - 3 tbsp
- Green peas - 1/2 cup
- Carrot - 1 (finely chopped)
- French Beans - 8 (finely chopped)
- Mustard seeds- 1 tsp
- Urad dal/white lentil - 2 tsp
- Asafoetida -1/8 tsp
- Curry leaves - 1 sprig
- Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
Instructions
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Pressure cook raw rice with 2+1/4 cup of water. Spread the cooked rice on a plate and set it aside.
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Heat a frying pan and add oil.
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When oil is warm, add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
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Now add white lentils, curry leaves, asafoetida and saute till lentils turn light brown.
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Add chopped vegetables (beans, carrot and peas) and saute for few minutes. Sprinkle little water and close the pan for 2 minutes.
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Lower the flame, add pickle mix well. Now add cooked rice and mix gently. Add little salt only as pickle brine will have salt. Serve with raita.
Recipe Notes
Hi Priya.
How are you. i would like to know what is Avakai oorugai.Never heard about it.I want to try to make this recipe. Can you provide the information where to buy it or how to make it and what is it , like sauce .Thanks
Mewa
Hi Mewa, avakai oorugai is a raw mango pickle. Please check the post and you can find the recipe link to make that pickle or check following link ~ https://priyakitchenette.com/2017/03/avakai-oorugai-raw-mango-pickle-recipe/
Flavour ful Sadam priya
Thank you Sujitha 🙂
This is sacrilegious.
There cannot be a square wheel for a square meal of vandi saadam
The only acceptable recipe for aavakkai vandi saadam is:
1. Mix nalla yennai with blisteringly hot rice and add more than adequate amount of aavalkai vandi.
2. Mix it till it’s red. Add more aavakkai vandi to make it redder.
3. Sutta appalam is preferable. Sutta vadaam is permissible.
4. Add more nal yennai and vandi and mix further if in doubt about the redness
5. Take a fist amount full of the mixed rice. Using your entire palm, make a ball of the rice which is larger than a mouthful. The litmus test is red stains all the way up to the wrist.
6. Eat and feed your loved ones too.
7. Wait for all 6 senses to be awakened.
8. Repeat till empty.
9. Mix again tomorrow.