Sago rice vadam

Ingredients:

Sago rice - 2 cups

Green chillies - 6

Sesame seeds - 1 tbsp

Asafoetida - 1 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Method:

• Wash sago rice once and add 5 cups of water. Let it soak overnight.
• In the morning, put the sago rice directly in the pressure cooker and add water so that there is 6" water above the sago rice.
• Add salt, asafoetida and finely ground chilli paste to the sago rice.
• Pressure cook until 1 whistle on high flame. Cook for a further 15 minutes on low flame.
• Cool.
• Using a ladle make small discs on a plastic sheet and let dry in the sun.
• When it is half dry, remove from the sheet and turn the vadams over.
• Dry well and store in air tight containers.
• Deep fry in oil and serve.