Tamarind Rice ( Puliyodharai ) | Mallika Badrinath Recipes

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Puliodharai
INGREDIENTS
Cooked Rice – 2 Cups
Tamarind – Big Lemon Sized (Soaked with minimum water)
Salt – As Required
Turmeric Powder – 1/4 Tsp
Red Chillies – 5
Jaggery – Very Little
Sambhar Powder – 2 1/2 Tsps
Roasted Sesame Powder – 1 1/2 Tsp
Oil – As Required
Mustard Seeds – 1/2 Tsp
Urad (Black Gram Dhal) – 1 Tsp
Bengal Gram Dhal – 2 tsps
Cashewnuts – 10
Curry Leaves – 2 Springs
Asafoetida Powder – 1/4 Tsp

METHOD
1. Boil Rice until three fourth cooked.
2. Each grain should remain separate.
3. Cool thoroughly on a broad plate.
4. Soak tamarind in just enough water for 10 minutes.
5. Grind it in a mixie and strain through a mesh strainer.
6. Add little more water to mixie, pour over on the strainer to obtain thick extract.
7. Heat sesame oil in a deep pan.
8. Roast whole red chillies until it turns dark. Sprinkle asafoetida powder.
9. Pour thick tamarind extract and reduce the flame.
10. Add whole green chillies, turmeric powder, cook until thick consistency.
11. Mix salt, jaggery and allow to melt thoroughly.
12. Remove when it turns thick pulp like consistency.
13. Heat a pan and add fenugreek. Roast until brown.
14. Fry red chillies, dhaniya, thuar dhal using a drop of oil.
15. Powder together and keep aside.
16. Heat enough oil, add seasonings one by one as in given order.
17. Pour over cooked rice along with thickened tamarind pulp, powdered ingredients and mix well.

*Sambhar Powder Or Puliodharai Powder
Roast & Powder:
Red Chillies – 10
Dhaniya (Coriander Seeds) – 2 Tsps
Thuar Dhal (Red Gram Dhal) – 1 Tblsp
Fenugreek (Dry Roasted Separately) – 1/4 Tsp