Iyengar Puliyodharai /Tangy Tamarind Rice.

Ingredients:
Tamarind - Little more than a big lemon size
Dry red chillies - 10-12
Rice - 1 cup
Hing - 1/2 tsp
Salt - as required
Roasted ground nuts - 1 Tblsp
Sesame oil (Til oil) for seasoning
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

For Pulikachal:
Fry and powder:

Dry Red chillies - 8-10
Coriander seeds - 2 tsps
Urad dal 1 1/2 tsp
Chana dal - 3 tsps
Methi seeds - 1 tsp
(Fry these items in half a teaspoon oil and powder)
Urad dal

Dry roast and powder separately:

Sesame seeds - 1 Tblsp

For seasoning:

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Chana dal - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - few
Roasted ground nuts.
Hing - 1/4 tsp

Method:

Cook the Rice and keep it separately. The grains should be separate and not sticky.
Roast the items for the pulikachal in a little oil and powder them and keep aside.
Soak the little more than big sized lemon of tamarind in hot water.
Make a thick tamarind extract by mixing the tamarind nicely in water.

Now take a kadai pour 3 1/2 Tblsps of Sesame oil and put all the seasoning items and then pour the thick tamarind extract on top of the seasoning. Add salt, turmeric powder,hing and mix nicely.

When the mixture starts boiling, halfway through add the powdered items and mix nicely.
Now let the mixture boil and keep on stirring off and on.

Cook till the mixture becomes of very thick consistency.

Add the roasted groundnuts and sesame seeds powder and mix nicely.

After the mixture is thick remove from fire.

When the mixture becomes a little cool, take a bowl add the cooked rice and start mixing with the pulikachal.

Mix nicely and the Iyengar puliyodharai is ready to be eaten.

You can fry Applams or vadams and have it along with the puliyodharai.

This is a tangy tamarind rice which is very popular in our Tamil nadu and also native place.
We usually make this during Kannu with all the other mixed rice items as one of the items.
This is also served as a prasadam in our Temples.

When we visit our temple in our native place we get this as a prasad and it is quite filling since they give you so much that You become full and don't eat any thing else.

This is a very tasty tangy and sour rice which you can try and will find it very tasty and would love to have it more often.