Tamarind Rice- A tangy ,delicious and flavorful Rice made with tamarind,peanuts and a spice mix- Specialty of Southern India
Tamarind rice/puliyohara/puliyodarai /Temple puliyohara is a specialty rice preparation of South India.There are few version of making this tamarind rice depends of every state and the taste of every household. It is a specialty from Tamil Iyengars community.
This is a spicy and tangy rice preparation which is a complete meal in it self and a great travel food too.
Puliyodarai / tamarind rice is also a popular prashad offered in South Indian temples.
A spice mix is prepared by roasting selected spices and lentils and then they are mixed in tamarind sauce . This sauce is referred as -pulikaichal or puliyodarai masala.
You don’t need many side dishes or accompaniments to serve along this delicious and flavorful rice,just fried papad, chips or a hot bowl of Mysore rasam or Pineapple Rasam is enough to serve along.
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Tamarind Rice/ Puliyodharai
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup Raw Rice
Pulikaichal/ Tamrind spice Mix
- 1/4 Cup Peanuts/ Moongphali
- 2 lemon size Tamarind
- 1.5 tbsp Bengal Gram/ Chana daal
- 1.5 tbsp White Lentil/ Urad daal
- 12 Curry Leaves
- 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds/ Methidana
- 2 tbsp Jaggary/ Gur Optional
- 4 Dried Red Chilies
- 2 Green chilies
- 1.5 tsp Ginger/ Adrak
- 1/2 tsp Asafoetida/ Hing
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds/ Rai
- 4 tbsp Cooking Oil
To Grind-
- 1.5 tbsp Sesame Seeds/ Till
- 1.5 tbsp Coriander seeds/ sabut Dhaniya
- 1/3 tsp Asafoetida/ hing
- 3/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds/ Methi dana
- 4 Dried whole red chilies
Instructions
- Wash and soak rice for 20 minutes and then boil in enough water till done.
- Drain the boiled rice on a colander to remove all the extra water.
- In a pan add 1.5 tsp of oil and add all the ingredients for roasting-sesame seeds,coriander seeds,fenugreek seeds,whole red chili and asafoetida.
- Roast them to a nice golden colour and then grind to make a fine powder.
- Soak tamarind in 1.5 cup of warm water for about 15 minutes. Mash the tamarind well and squeeze the pulp.
- Heat oil in a pan and add the peanuts and fry them on low heat till they become golden in colour.
- Now add mustard seeds,urad daal,chana daal,fenugreek seeds and saute till daal become golden in colour.
- Add curry leaves,whole red chilies,green chilies,asafoetida, and turmeric and saute.Then add the tamarind pulp ,jaggary,ginger and salt and cook on medium heat .
- Cook till the mixture started to thicken and oil start floating on the sides of the pan.
- Now add the boiled rice and the ground spice mix and mix every thing gently.
- Cover the pan for minimum 1 hour so rice will absorb all the flavours and the daal used in tempering will soften a bit.
- Serving suggestions-serve along with some papad,chips,curd or rasam
Jinson says
Aunty, thanks for recipe. I cam across your blog and prepared the rice.. It was awesome and awe inspiring to see the amount of work which goes into Puliyotharai.
Anonymous says
hello aunty….very nice collection of recipes….everything looks very organized…thanks a lot for taking that effort….could you do a post on sambhar sometime ….thank u once again!!
Sona - quick picks/pick quicks says
well..me too just posted one on this today..but with spagetti.. so you get a share of a "same pinch" 🙂
Suja Manoj says
My favorite rice,tangy and yummy
Priya Suresh says
I can happily finish that bowl, tangy tamarind rice are my favourite.
Rumana Ambrin says
My all time favourite rice…
divya says
Oh wow, I'm drooling!
Veena Theagarajan says
looks yumm
Hema says
You have made it perfectly..
Sapana Behl says
So flavorful and delicious rice ..
Anu Shoj says
inviting tamarind rice…