Puliyotharai rice(Tamarind rice)

                                                      
Puliyodharai is very tasty & useful  when we are  in outdoor or tour.
We can make the mixture of puliyodhara in advance .

Ingredients:                          serve.4
                
Rice .......500gm
Tamarind.....large lemon size (extract juice with 1 cup of water)
Groundnut.......as need
Salt ....to taste

Make puliyodharai powder:

Red chilli .......3-4 nos
Coriander seeds........11/2tbsp
Duvar dal..........1tbsp
Curry leaves .......few
Fenugreek seeds (venthayam)....1/2 tsp

Fry all the above ingredients in a pan in medium flame until the dal
turns golden brown color and grind to a powder.

Make puliyodhara paste or puliyodhara mix
Oil (Gingelly oil) ......4-5 tbsp
Mustard seeds.......1tsp
Chana dal.........1tbsp
Urad dal...1tdsp
Asafoetida........1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder.... 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves ....few
Red chili .......2nos( broke into 2-3 pieces)

Preparation:

1.Heat a pan with 4-5 tbsp  oil,add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds starts to sputter,
   add Channa dal and Urad dal and fry till they turn golden brown color.
2.Add broken red chillies and curry leaves and fry for another 20 seconds.
3.Then add extracted thick tamarind juice , turmeric powder,salt ,asafoetida and mix well.
4.Allow the tamarind mixture to boil at least for 5 minutes in low flame to get rid off the raw smell of tamarind.

5.Now add the ground powder and mix well to get rid off lumps. Keep the flame in low and allow th puliyodharai mixture to boil well and attain a thick paste like consistency

6. Puliyodarai mixture gets thicken, remove the pulioyodharai from flame.
7.We can store the puliyodharai mixture in an air tight container and refrigerate .

8.Add this paste to the cooked rice and mix well.garnish with groundnuts .
9 .Serve with any papad of your choice / with any chips/coconut thuvayal.