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Sesame Peanut Rice Noodles / Sevai – Breakfast in 5 minutes

November 13, 2013

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Hot breakfast in 5 minutes, and it’s not cereal or toast or a fried egg! Or a smoothie for that matter. It’s this amazing thing called ‘dhideer sevai‘ or instant rice noodles which you absolutely must stock in your kitchen. Unlike Maggi or any other 2 minute noodles, you don’t have to cook them.

Immerse them for 2 minutes in hot water, drain and they are ready. These are the REAL 2 minute noodles. They make for the quickest lunchbox you can rustle up. Make a lemon sevai or mix with any ready pastes like Tomato pickle / thokku to make a tomato sevai.

Add a tempering of curry leaves, mustard seeds, red chillies on the top and it’s ready.

In my 5 minute recipe, there’s no ready pastes involved. I quickly pulsed roasted peanuts, sesame seeds and black pepper in the mixer and that was the flavouring for this dish that went into my kid’s lunchbox today.

Time Saving Tips

  • When you buy peanuts/groundnuts, roast them on the stove top / microwave or oven and keep in airtight jar. You can add them to a variety of dishes like salads, raitas, bhel etc
  • When you buy a coconut, grate / scrape the whole coconut and keep it in a freezer safe box. Whenever you need a small bit of grated coconut, scrape it out using a sharp knife and use as required.

Sesame-Peanut Instant Sevai (Rice Noodles)

serves 2

Sesame Peanut Rice Noodles / Sevai - Breakfast in 5 minutes

Hot breakfast in 5 minutes, and it's not cereal or toast or a fried egg! Or a smoothie for that matter. It's this amazing thing called 'dhideer sevai' or instant rice noodles which you absolutely must stock in your kitchen. Unlike Maggi or any other 2 minute noodles, you don't have to cook them. Imm
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Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 5 minutes mins
Total Time 10 minutes mins
Servings: 2 serving
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 100 to 150 grams rice noodles instant (Dhideer Sevai)
  • 1 litre water recently boiled
  • 3 tbsps peanuts roasted unsalted
  • 2 tbsps sesame seeds
  • 8 black pepper corns
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp coconut fresh / frozen scraped
  • pinch asafoetida
  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 sprig curry leaves
  • 1 red chilli dried broken into pieces

Method
 

  1. Immerse the noodles in the hot water, cover and keep aside for 2-3 minutes. In the meanwhile coarsely powder the roasted peanuts, sesame seeds and black pepper corns in a small jar of the mixer.
  2. Drain the noodles using a colander, shake off all excess water.
  3. Heat 2 tsp oil in a non-stick kadai / pan. Splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaves, dried red chilli and asafoetida, when the curry leaves crisp up, add the drained noodles, salt and coarse peanut-sesame powder.
  4. Toss well but gently until the noodles / sevai is well coated.
  5. Garnish with fresh coconut.

Notes

You could use the same recipe for poha (beaten rice).
I've used Anil brand Rice Sevai, 777 brand and found them to be good.
by Nandita Iyer 
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