Hot Rice + Ghee Vellulli Kaaram
The first plate. Rice, ghee, podi, nothing else.
What you need
- 1 cup hot cooked rice
- 1 tbsp ghee
- 1–2 tsp Vellulli Kaaram Podi
- Salt, only if the rice was cooked unsalted
How to make it
- Serve the rice while it is still steaming. Cold rice will not take the ghee.
- Make a well in the middle and drop the ghee in. Let it melt on its own.
- Spoon the podi onto the ghee, not onto dry rice.
- Fold with your fingers or the back of a spoon until every grain is coated and the colour is even.
- Eat straight away.
The ghee carries the garlic and chilli into the grain. The podi is the whole seasoning — nothing else goes in.