SOUTH INDIAN RECIPES USING TAMARIND

Tamarind rice (Puliyodharai )

Ingredients

• 1 cup rice
• 4 Cashew nuts
• 4 tbsp gingelly (sesame) oil
• 10 Groundnuts
• 3 tbsp Tamarind sauce

Method of preparation

• Cook rice and spread on a plate to cool.
• Sprinkle a pinch of turmeric powder and gingelly (sesame) oil over the rice.
• Add fried cashew nuts and groundnuts.
• Pour enough of the tamarind sauce and curry leaves. Mix well.
• Add salt to taste, if required.
• If more seasonings (mustard, black and bengalgram dhal ) are required, fry separately and add.

Tamarind sauce preparation (Pulikaichal)

Ingredients

• 500 ml Tamarind juice
• 1 tsp Fenugreek
• 3 tsp Salt
• 6 Red chillies
• 1 tsp Blackgram dhal
• 1 tsp Bengalgram dhal
• 1 tsp Mustard seed
• some Asafoetid
• turmeric powder

Method of preparation

• Fry fenugreek seeds till reddish without oil.
• In a little oil fry 3 red chillies. Powder the chillies with fenugreek and salt.
• Heat about 2 -3 tbsp of gingelly oil and fry the mustard seed, the rest of the chillies, asafoetida and dhals.
• Pour in the tamarind juice.
• Add a pinch of turmeric powder.
• Boil over a slow fire.
• Now add the fenugreek and chilli powder stir constantly.
• When the sauce has thickened it will not be sticky. 
• remove from fire.