Receta Puliyodharai / Puliyogare / Tamarind Rice
INGREDIENTS
(Serves 3 people)
- Rice - 1 cup
- Tamarind - 1 lemon sized ball
- Garlic pods - 2
- Whole Peanuts / Split Peanuts - A handful (roasted / raw)
- Urad dal / Black gram - 1 spoon
- Split bengal gram / Kadalai paruppu - 1 spoon
- Mustard seeds - 1 spoon
- Curry leaves - Few
- Fenugreek seeds - 3/4 spoon
- Asafoetida powder - 1/4 spoon
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 spoon
- Dry red chillies - 2
- Salt - As per taste
- Gingelly oil / Any cooking oil - 3 spoons
PREPARATION TIME
Soak tamarind in half a cup of water for 15 minutes and extract the juice from it. Set aside.
Add 1 cup of rice and 2 cups of water, salt and pressure cook for perfectly 10 minutes on a medium flame. (or) You can also cook rice in a normal sauce pan. Make sure that the rice grains are not sticky.
Add a spoon of oil to the rice and mix well and set aside.
In a pan add fenugreek seeds and asafoetida powder and dry roast until the seeds turns slightly brown.
Grind the above fenugreek mixture into fine powder and set aside.
In a wide pan add oil, after it heats up add mustard leaves and let it splutter.
Now add roasted split peanuts, urad dal, split bengal gram, garlic pods,
dry red chillies
curry leaves, and saute till it turns brownish. Be careful not to burn them.
Now add the tamarind extract and the prepared fenugreek powder, turmeric powder, salt and stir well.
Cook on medium flame till the water content reduces well and oil peeps out.
Remove from flame.
Now add this tamarind mixture to cooked rice and stir well so that the mixture spreads well.
Close the pan with a lid and serve after 10 minutes.
TIP 1: Rice grains should be separate after cooking. It should not be sticky. The best ratio is 1:2 (1 cup rice : 2 cups water).
TIP 2: Peanuts add an extra delight to the recipe, but you can also omit it. Split peanuts without skin should be used.
TIP 3: You can also use leftover rice for making this recipe. For that first you have to steam the rice using a pressure cooker and then prepare this recipe.
Delicious and authentic South Indian Tamarind rice / Puliyodharai / Puliyogare, is now ready!!