Temple Style Puliyotharai Recipe / Tamarind Rice

Puliyotharai is a traditional south-indian recipe. It taste tangy, spiced with little sweetness makes the recipe divine taste. This recipe often made in south-indian homes for Lunch box. It is offered as Prasadam in the temple after Pooja. Here i shared the Temple Style Puliyotharai Recipe. Lets see the easy n quick preparation of Puliyotharai Recipe.

Ingredients :

Long grain rice - 1 cup ( washed n soaked for 20 mins)
Tamarind - Lemon sized (soaked in water n get thick paste out of it)
Sesame Oil - 1 tbsp + 1 tsp
Urid dal - 1 tsp
Bengal gram dal - 2 tsp
Peanuts - 2 tsp
Sesame seeds - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Dried red chilly - 2 ( broken into pieces)
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
Jaggery - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Dry Roast Ingredients :

Coriander seeds - 2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
Dried Red Chilly - 3
Urid dal - 1 tsp
Bengal gram dal - 1 tsp
Sesame seeds - 1/2 tsp

Method :

Cooked the rice n mix it with salt, sesame oil. Keep it aside.

Heat a pan , dry roast coriander seeds, fenugreek seeds, dried red chilly, urid dal, bengal gram dal, sesame seeds till get nice aroma. Turn-off the flame. Keep it for cool.

In a blender, add n grind the above ingredients into dry powder.

Heat a Heavy bottomed pan with oil in a medium flame. Add n fry bengal gram dal, urid dal, dried red chilly, mustard seeds, peanuts, sesame seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida unitl mustard seeds stop spluttering.

Add tamarind paste into the seasoning n bring to boil until the paste becomes non-stick into the pan. Add jaggery in this stage.

Now add n stir the dry powder, salt into the tamarind mixture. Mix it well n cook in a lower flame for 3-4 minutes. Turn-off the flame.

Add n mix the tamarind spice mixture with cooked rice.  Adjust the salt n tamarind mixture as per our taste.

Delicious n tasty Tamarind Rice is ready to serve.

Serve with Potato masala n ulundhu Thovayal.

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