Tamarind rice (Quick and easy recipe)

I learnt this recipe from my dear friend Soujanya.

Ingredients:

• Sona masoori Rice: 1 cup 
• Oil: 3-4 tbsp
• Whole Red chilli (Sabut Lal Mirch) : 1-2 (broken in 2-3 pieces)
• Roasted Peanuts/ cashews: 2-3 tsp
• Salt: to taste
• Mustard seeds: 1-1.5 tbsp
• Curry leaves: a few
• Chana Daal: 1 tbsp (wash and soak in water for atleast 1 hour)
• Urad daal: 1 tsp (wash and soak in water)
• Turmeric pwd: 1 tsp
• Green chilli: 4-5 (cut in halves and slit from centre lengthwise)
• Asafoetida: a pinch
• Tamarind: 1 lemon sized ball (Soak in hot water to get thick extract. Don't add too much water)

Method:

1. Cooking rice:
• Wash rice properly and soak them in water(2 cups) for 10 mins. Add salt.
• Take a boil and cook and low flame for 12-13 mins. (Make sure the rice is properly cooked but not too soft)
• Add 1 tbsp oil in cooked rice and mix well.
2. Tadka/ Seasoning:
• Dry roast peanuts for 3-4 mins. Take them out in separate plate.
• Heat oil/ ghee in pan. 
• Add chana daal and urad daal. Cook for 3-4 mins.
• Add hing, whole red chilli, haldi, green chilli, curry leaves and mustard seeds. Let them splutter. 
• Add peanuts. Mix and turn off the flame. 
• Now sieve the thick extract of tamarind and add tamarind extract and cook for 3-4 mins to get thick pulp. The oil will separate from the mixture.
3. Mix tadka in cooked rice.
4. Ready to serve.