How To Make Tamarind Rice (chintapandu pulihora)

by Pallavi Mohan on March 19, 2012

Ingredients

Jeera rice/Normal rice                                      2 cups

Tamarind juice(lemon size)                             1/2 cup

Turmeric powder                                                 1/2 tsp

Jaggery powder                                                    1/2 tsp

Fenugreek seeds                                                   1 tsp

Mustard seeds                                                        1 tsp

Channa dal                                                               1tsp

Sesame seeds/til                                                   1 tsp

Red chillies                                                              8

Sesame oil/sunflower oil                                  100 gm

Peanuts/Groundnuts                                         2 tsp

Asafoetida /hing                                                  a pinch

Salt to taste

 

Preparation Method :

  • Pressure cook rice and spread on a plate, keep aside.
  • Heat the Skillet or frying pan, dry roast fenugreek seeds for a minute and grind along with hing into fine powder.
  • Take a heavy bottom pan and cook  tamarind juice a very slow fire(stir in the middle so that it doesn’t burn).
  •  Add salt, turmaric powder, jaggery powder and fine powder of fenugreek and hing powder to it.
  • On the other hand take a skillet or frying pan, heat oil add mustard, red chilies, channa dal, groundnuts, sesame seeds one by one and fry.
  • Add curry leaves and transfer this to boiling tamarind juice which is on simmer fire.
  • Boil this juice till it reaches thick gravy form and until oil comes out with good flavor.
  • Add cooked tamarind gravy to rice ,if needed oil pour 1 tsp.
  • Mix well and serve hot…with papads.

 

 

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How To Make Sweet Pongal (Chakara Pongal)

by Pallavi Mohan on January 13, 2012

Sweet Pongal

Ingredients :

Raw rice-                                                 1cup

Green gram (moong dal)-                 1/2 cup

Milk-                                                           1 cup

Jaggery (grated)or Brown sugar-  2  cups (as per taste)

Ghee-                                                          4-5 tbsp

Cashew nuts -                                          per taste

Raisins-                                                      per taste

Cardamoms(powdered)-                   3

Dates (brown)-                                      5 (thin slices)

Nutmeg (grated or powdered)-      1/2 tsp

Pinch of saffron

Water-                                                       3 cups

 

Preparation Method:

  • Dry roast green gram dal,till the aroma of the dal smells.
  • Pressure cook the rice and dal with 3 cups water and 1 cup milk till it soften.
  • Dissolve the jaggary in  3/4 cup of water and cook till the jaggery melts .
  • Remove the dirt by straining the syrup.
  • Take a heavy bottomed vessel and cook the syrup by string till it becomes lightly sticky.
  • Add cooked rice and dal ,put in simmer.
  • Heat 5 tbsp of ghee and fry cashew nuts ,raisins(kissmiss),transfer this to boiling  pongal .
  • Finally  add powdered cardamoms,nutneg,sliced dates and saffron.
  • Mix well and Serve hot .

 

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