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This one dish is made on almost every festival in south india. Its one of the easiest and tastiest dish. The rich flavor of tamarind mixed with rice grains gives a very nice aroma. Tamarind rice is generally called puliogare..or pulihora in south.. Puliogare reminds me of the tv ad wherein a boy keeps repeating the word PULIOGARE..and the thief who is hiding in the house gets really bugged..just by listening to the word again and again..Although, its quite a simple recipe but i know of many people who don’t know how to make tamarind rice. Here is my version…

Ingredients

2 cups cooked long grain rice..(basmati)
For tempering
2 tbs oil
1 tbs mustard seeds
1 tbs chana daal
1 tbs urad dal
1 tbs jeera
4 red chillies
4 green chillies – slit
1 tbs chopped ginger
1 pinch asoefatida
1 sprig of curry leaves
1/2 cup peanuts
1/2 cup cashewnuts
1 cup thick tamarind juice( take 2 lemon size tamarind pieces- add 1 cup water and microwave for 30 sec, mash it and take out the juice)
A pinch of turmeric
Salt to taste

Method

• First wash the rice thoroughly and then cook it. Once its cooked..remove it and spread it evenly a big bowl. Let it cool.
• Now take a pan, add oil. Add mustard, chana dal, urad dal, jeera, red chillies, peanuts, cashewnuts and curry leaves. Roast them till it turns slight brown.

• Add chopped green chillies, ginger, asoefatida and turmeric.
• After the chillies are fried well, add the tamarind extract and salt and let it boil for 3 minutes.

• Switch off and let it cool.
• After the rice and sauce is completely cooled off, add the sauce to the rice slowly without breaking the grains. Mix it well so that each rice grain is coated well with the mixture.

Let it rest for at least an hour, because the juices will go into the rice grains and it will taste awesome!!

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