Daddojanam - Spice Curd Rice or Yogurt Rice

Hi readers, Today eighth Day of Devi Navaratri, Today alankaram is Goddess Saraswathi, the mother of Vedas!! Saraswathi is the mother of Knowledge, music and all the creative arts. Students worship Goddess Saraswathi Devi to perform well in examinations. Today I worshipped Goddess Saraswathi Devi with flowers and offered Daddojanam, Atukulu, Vadappu, Panakam, Honey and Jaggery as Naivedyam. Here I am posting the recipe for "Daddojanam" (spice curd rice).During Dasara Navaratri in temples, this Daddojanam is served as Prasadam. It is a simple and quick recipe by just mixing rice with curd and tempering it. I made this Daddojanam with minimal ingredients. The key ingredient in this recipe is "Curd".Fresh curd and the right amount of salt give excellent taste to this Daddojanam. Well, let us see the procedure for the high protein rice recipe "Daddojanam".

Ingredients :

1/2 cup rice

2 cups fresh, full cream curd

1/2 cup whole cream milk (boiled and cooled)

1 small piece of Ginger

5-6 Green chillies

1 spring Curry leaves

For Tempering 

2 tablespoons Oil

1 tablespoon Chana dal

1 tablespoon Urad dal

1 tablespoon Peanuts

1/4 tablespoon Mustard seeds

1/4 tablespoon Cumin seeds

2 Red chillies 

a pinch of Hing

1 cup of pomegranate fruit seeds

Salt to taste

 Procedure :                        

1. Wash the rice and cook in a Pressure cooker by adding water for 2-3 whistles. After 3 whistles, turn off the flame. The rice should be mushy.

2. Let the rice cool. Once cool down add the required amount of salt and curd to the rice and mix well.

3. Heat a pan with oil, add chana dal, urad dal, peanuts, let it fry for one minute till they turn a golden colour. Then add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, broken red chillies, curry leaves, fry for one minute on medium flame.

4. Now add finely chopped ginger pieces, green chilli pieces and fry one more minute and turn off the flame.

5. Add lukewarm water to the curd rice and give a good mix.

6. Now add the talimpu to the curd rice and garnish it with fresh pomegranate seeds.

7. That's it! Daddojanam is ready to serve.

 Transfer it to the serving bowl and offer to Lord Saraswathi Devi as Prasadam.

Tips :

• Curd should be always fresh and thick
• Rice should be mushy.
• Always mash the rice well before adding curd.
• Add only lukewarm milk to the curd rice.
• Do not add too many seasonings to the curd rice, it spoils the taste of daddojanam

Offer this "Daddojanam" as naivedyam to Goddess Saraswathi and serve your family as Prasadam. Please leave your feedback here on my post.