Tried & Devoured: Sabudana/Sago Kichidi

Sabudana/Sago Kichidi

Food blogging is booming in World Wide Web and I am proud to be a part of this wonderful community. Food blogging has found a new meaning and niche in blogging community with thousands of food blogs and few hundred blogs coming every month. In this ever growing food blog community there are few bloggers who stand out with your unique style of writings and recipes. One such person is lovely Nupur who blogs at One Hot Stove. Nupur’s blog is my bible when it comes to Marathi recipes and her musings with fool proof recipes have gained many devoted followers from all around the globe. Her One Hot Stove is one hot stop for wonderful write-ups, drool worthy photographs and delightful stories of Dale whom I am very fond of. I have tried few recipes from her blog and the end results are simply awesome.

When Nupur’s One Hot Stove was chosen by Zlamushka for her T&T event I was delighted as I had few recipes bookmarked to try. Monthly Blog Patrolling (MBP), Tried and Tasted (T&T), Your Recipe Rocks (YRR) has one thing in common. Cook recipe from other blog and post it in your blog. So these recipes of hers fit all three bills beautifully. My first stop was at her famous Sabudaana/Sagu Kichidi. I wanted to give it a try ever since I had seen it in her blog. At last I made this delicious bowl of pearly delight yesterday and here I am with my post. This Sago or Sabudaana or Pearls of Sago Palm Kichidi is made during fasting and I must say it is more of a feast with all that peanuts. Soaked and fluffy Sago pearls are seasoned with ground peanut, sugar and salt and tempered with cumin seeds and green chillies. Sounds simple right? Wait till you taste it. I also added few Curry Leaves while tempering and blame it on my South Indian roots for doing so;) You can easily skip these curry leaves and follow Nupur’s recipe without any variations as I did and you will have this comforting bowl of Sago Kichidi. I did cook potatoes before hand instead of cooking it afterwards with tempering as mentioned by Nupur just to save time. This is my entry for not just one, or two or even three events. This is my entry for four events, yes, you heard it right, FOUR. Off this comforting bowl goes to Zlamushka’s T&T, Madhu’s YRR, Raaga’s WBB-Express Meals and also Nupur’s MBP-Less is More(Oh yes, this is next month’s theme;). I will be posting another recipe tried from Nupur’s blog in my next post and you sure don’t want to miss that;) So stay tuned.

Sabudana/Sago Kichidi

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Sago/Sabudana Kichidi (Medley of Sago Pearls with Ground Peanuts and Spice Tempering)
Prep Time: 5 mins (Excluding soaking time)
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Serves: 2-3
Recipe Source: One Hot Stove

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Ingredients:
1 cup Sago Pearls, rinsed and soaked in water overnight (8-10 hrs)
¾ cups Groundnuts/Peanuts, roasted, peeled and coarsely ground
2 tbsp Sugar
1 large Potato, cooked, peeled and diced into bite size pieces
Salt to taste

For Tempering:
1 tbsp Ghee + 1 tbsp Oil (or 2 tbsp Ghee)
1 tsp Jeera/Cumin Seeds
4-5 Green Chillies, slit (adjust acc to taste)
Few Curry Leaves (Optional)

Method:

Rinse and soak sago pearls in enough water (just to cover sago) overnight. This way you will end up with fluffy and hydrated sago pearls.
Gently mix in roughly ground peanuts, sugar and salt to taste and keep it aside.
Now heat oil in a pan and add jeera and curry leaves if using. When jeera starts to sizzle add slit green chillies and diced potatoes and sauté for few mins till potatoes turn light golden.
Mix in seasoned sago and stir gently for about 5-7 mins. Adjust the seasoning and cover and cook for another couple of minute.
Serve hot garnished with finely chopped coriander leaves and enjoy.

Sabudana/Sago Kichidi

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Note:

Other Kichidi recipe from Monsoon Spice

• Moong Kichidi

On a happy note, my recipe for Green Bell Pepper Soup has won Best Presented Recipe at Pooja’s VOW-Bell Pepper event. Thank you, dear Pooja for hosting such a wonderful event and my sincere thanks to all who voted for this recipe.

And thanks to Swati and Priyanka (for Inspirational award) and Trupti (for Blogging with a Purpose award) for passing me these awrds. Much appreciated ladies.

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MBP-Street Food:

MBP-Street Food ends on 30th of June, 2008. Start patrolling the blogs and cook your favourite Street Food that your tummy begs and heart desires and spread link love.

Deadline: 30th June, 2008

Please go through the guidelines and include all the required information in your post and mail when sending me your entry. Don't forget to add Your Name, Your Blog Name, Name of the Dish you cooked, Perm Link of the entry, Perm Link of original recipe along with the gorgeous Photo of final dish.

Click Here or on the logo to find out more information on this event.

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WBB-Summer Feast:

For this edition of WBB, your challenge is to cook anything with summer fruits and vegetables. Yes, the theme is WBB-Summer Feast. Go to your town/city’s Farmer’s Market and pick fresh season’s produce and make your favourite breakfast or brunch and join in the Summer Feast.

Deadline: 31st July, 2008

Please go through the guidelines and include all the required information in your post and mail when sending me your entry. Don't forget to add Your Name, Your Blog Name, Name of the Dish you cooked, Perm Link of the entry, Perm Link of original recipe along with the gorgeous Photo of final dish.

Click Here or on the logo to find out more information on this event.