PULUSU PINDI

Hello !! Here I am with another recipe...this is a tamarind based dish often made in south Indian families during celebrations

INGREDIENTS:

Tamarind                       100gms

Rice                                 2 cups

Red chilies                     4

Green chilies                10  

Curry leaves

Oil                                  

Cumin seeds/jeera      2 teaspoons

Mustard seeds             1 teaspoon

Groundnuts                  3 tablespoons

Chana dal                     2 teaspoons

Urad dal                        2 teaspoons

Turmeric

Water                    

PROCEDURE:

·      Wash rice & spread it on a cloth. After 20 min grind it (to make rava), then sieve the fine powder out n keep the coarse particles.

·      Soak tamarind in water for 15 min. Then squeeze it to make thick juice.

·      While boiling the juice for 20 min add salt and 1 tablespoon turmeric.

·      Heat oil in a kadai fry mustard seeds, groundnuts, chanadal, urad dal, cumin seeds till they turn light brown .

·      Add red chilies, green chilies and curry leaves in sequence , put off the flame once done.

·      Take another kadai, pour 4 glasses of water into which 1 tablespoon of oil , 1/2 teaspoon turmeric and salt (to taste)is added. Leave it to boil.

·      Mix the rice rava in the kadai, cover with a lid to let it cook until its soft.

·      After turning off the flame once its cool mix(well) the fried (tadka) and the tamarind juice.

·       Its ready! Serve hot!

VARIATION-- Instead of the rice rava , cooked rice can be mixed directly !!