Tamarind Rice
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Ingredients :
Cooked Rice - 3 cups
Tamrind pulp - 1/2 cup
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
Peanuts - 3 tbsp
Tadka / Popu ingredients = 1 tsp mustard seeds + 1 tsp urad dal + 1 tsp chana dal + 2 red chillies
Green Chillies - 2
Curry leaves - 8
Asafoetida powder - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt - according to taste
Oil - 4 tbsp
Procedure:
1. Cook the rice in a rice cooker or pressure cooker. For 1 cup of rice, use 2 cups of water.
2. In a sauce pan, heat up some oil and get the tadka done. While thats getting done add the Asafoetida powder, curry leaves, green chillies, curry leaves along with the peanuts. Roast them well.
3. Now add the Tamarind pulp. Add Turmeric, Salt and sugar.
4. Let all the ingredients cook well in the tamarind pulp for sometime till the oil seperates and water evapourates.
5. Now add the rice. Mix well on a low flame.
History of Pulihora : Puli means sour taste. Pulihora can also be referred as sour rice. This is a preperation widely cooked during festivals or special occassions, without which an
y festival meal is incomplete in South-India. It is given as prasadam in temples, at temples devotees after darshan of the God Queue to get pulihora. The festival of SeethaRama Kalyanam is one big occasion where the huge packets of pulihora is distributed to the devotees.
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