Tamarind Rice

Ingredients:

• Cooked Rice (Boil rice with ample water, salt and turmeric pwd)

  

  Cooked Rice

• For tamarind mix:
• Tamarind juice: 1 bowl 
• Soak (lemon size) tamarind ball in hot water for 15-20 mins.
• Mash well.
• Sieve to get tamarind juice.
• Raw Peanuts- 1 tbsp
• Chana daal: 1 tbsp
• Fenugreek seeds: 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds/ Rai: 1 tbsp
• Curry leaves: a few
• Whole Red chilli: 1-2 (broken into pieces)
• Hing: a pinch
• Sesame seeds : 1 tbsp(Dry roast and crush in mortar-pestle to form a powder)
• Green chilli: 1 (finely chopped)
• Red chilli pwd: to taste
• Coriander pwd: 1 tsp
• Salt: 1/4 tsp (as we have already added salt in rice)
• Roasted Cumin pwd: 1 tsp
• Oil: 1 tsp

Method:

1. Heat oil in pan.

   

   Cooked Tamarind Pulp

2. Add hole red chilli, mustard seeds. Let mustard seeds splutter.
3. Add fenugreek seeds, red chilli pwd, chana daal, peanuts, curry leaves, hing, green chilli.
4. Cook for 5-6 mins on low flame.
5. Add tamarind juice. Mix well. Cook for 4-5 mins.
6. Add salt and sesame seeds powder. Cook for 10-15 mins until the mixture becomes little thick. (See pic on the right)
7. Turn off the flame.
8. Mix it will cooked rice.
9. Serve hot.