Tamarind Rice

Ingredients:

Rice                     -  2 cups

Pulukkaicchal         -  3 table spoons

Sesame oil             -  2 table spoons

Mustard seeds       -  1 table spoons

Black gram dal       -  1 tea spoon

Bengal gram dal      -  1 tea spoon

Ground nut             -  1 table spoon

Asafoitida               -  1 pinch

Curry leaves           -  a few leaves

Red chillies             -  2 - 3 nos

1.  Wash and cook rice and spread it in a plate and allow it to cool.

2.  Heat Sesame oil in a kadai.

3.  Add mustard, black gram dal, bengal gram dal and groundnut.

4.  Once the mustard crackles and the dals change colour remove it from the stove.

5.  Add curry leaves, turmeric powder and asafoitida to the hot oil with dal mustard etc. and transfer the mixture immediately into the bowl with cooked rice.

6.  Add the pulikkacchal and turmeric powder to the rice and mix thoroughly.

7.  Puliyodarai ready.