Chinthapandu Pulihora / Tamarind rice

Ingredients :-

Ingredients for cooking rice:-

Raw rice : 2 rice cooker cups (sona masoori)

Water : 4 cups

Turmeric : 1/4tspn

oil : 1tspn

Ingredients for making pulusu:-

Tamarind : 2 lemon size balls

oil : 1tbspn

cumin seeds : 1/4 tspn

Dry red chilly :1

Green chillies :2 (slit vertically)

Asafoetida : 1/8tspn

Curry leaves : 1 sprig

Fenugreek powder (menthi podi) : 1/4tspn

Cumin powder (jeelakarra podi) :1/4tspn

Salt :2tspns

Turmeric : 1/8tspn

Mustard powder : 1/2 tspn

Ingredients for Talimpu / Tadka :-

Oil : 1&1/2 tbspn

Urad dal : 1tbspn

Dry red chillies :2

Peanuts : 3tbspns

Bengal gram /chana dal : 2tbspns

Cumin seeds : 1/4tspn

Mustard seeds : 1/4tspn

Green chillies : 4 (slit vertically)

Asafoetida : 1/8tspn

Curry leaves : 2 sprigs

Preparation :-

• Cooking Rice :-
• Wash 2 cups of rice , add double the water and soak it for atleast 15 mins . Then add 1/4tspn turmeric and 1tspn oil and cook the rice . Once rice is cooked cool it on a wide plate .
  
  
  
  
• Extracting tamarind juice :-
• Take 2 lemon size tamarind balls in a microwave bowl , add some water till they immerse and microwave for 2 mins. Let this cool. Once it is cooled extract the thick juice from it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Making Pulusu :-
• Heat a shallow frying pan , add 1tbspn oil and when hot add 1/4tspn cumin seeds and 1 broken dry red chilliy , 2 green chillies , add asafoetida and curry leaves .
  
  
• Next add tamarind extract.
  
  
• Add 2tspns salt , 1/8tspn turmeric , Fenugreek powder , cumin powder .
  
  
• let this boil for 15- 20 mins till it thickens. Then switchoff stove and add freshly grounded mustard powder. Let this cool.
• Making Talimpu /Tadka :- Take another pan and heat it . Add 1&1/2 tbspns oil and when hot add urad dal , dry red chillies , peanuts and chana dal . When urad dal turns lite golden colour add cumin seeds , mustard seeds and green chillies . When green chillies are nicely fried then add curry leaves and asafoetida . Switch off stove.
  
  
  
• Mixing :- In cooled rice add talimpu/tadka and pulusu ( thick tamarind juice) . Mix them all well . Put it aside for atleast 2 hrs and then it is ready to serve.
• Serving :-Yummy yummy pulihora is ready to serve . U can serve it with onion or with curd and appadam. But usually it is eaten plain.