Puliyodharai / Tamarind Rice.

Ingredients:

• Tamarind - small lemon size
• Dry red chillies - 2 to 3
• Rice - 1 cup
• Hing - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - as required
• Sesame oil (Til oil) for seasoning
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

Fry and powder:

• Dry Red chillies - 2 to 4
• Coriander seeds - 2 tbsp
• Methi seeds - 1 tsp

For seasoning:

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Urad dal - 1 tsp
• Chana dal - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Hing - 1/4 tsp

Method:

• Cook the Rice and keep it separately. The grains should be separate and not sticky.
• Roast the items for the pulikachal and powder them and keep aside.
• Soak the little more than big sized lemon of tamarind in hot water.
• Make a thick tamarind extract by mixing the tamarind nicely in water.
• Now take a kadai pour 3 1/2 Tblsps of Sesame oil and put all the seasoning items and then pour the thick tamarind extract on top of the seasoning. Add salt, turmeric powder,hing and mix nicely.

• When the mixture starts boiling, halfway through add the powdered items and mix nicely.

• Now let the mixture boil and keep on stirring off and on.
• Cook till the mixture becomes of very thick consistenc.

• After the mixture is thick remove from fire.
• When the mixture becomes a little cool, take a bowl add the cooked rice and start mixing with the pulikachal.
• Mix nicely.