Tamarind Rice (Puliogare) Recipe

Serves 3

Tamarind rice is a very popular in Tamil Nadu and parts of Karnataka. It is spicy, sour, and typically served all by itself or accompanied by salad.

Ingredients:
1½ cups Rice
A small ball of tamarind
Curry leaves
Asafetida
1½ tsp mustard oil
Salt
A few peppercorns
½" piece of ginger, finely chopped
A pinch of mustard
¾ cup water (to soak tamarind)
2 tbsp groundnuts roasted
50 gm split black gram
50 gm split bengal gram
2 red chilies

Method:

• Cook the rice with salt. Cool slightly.
• Soak tamarind in water and extract its juice.
• Roast black gram, Bengal gram and red chilies separately and coarsely grind them together.
• Heat oil, add asafetida, mustard, peppercorns, ground nuts, ginger and curry leaves.
• When mustard splutters, add the tamarind extract, powdered splices and salt, and cook till all water thickens.
• Mix the tamarind mixture thoroughly with the rice, cover and serve hot.

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