Tamarind Rice ( Puliyogare) - 1 cup-265 Calories- Stepwise pictures & Video | Temple puliyodharai recipe

Cuisine Style: Tamilnadu, South India | Cooking Time: 15 to 20 min | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Any side dish | Type: Lunch, Kannum pongal festival special

Boil rice then let it cool. Soak tamarind for 5 min. Roast groundnut. Dry roast fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds, sesame seeds, peppercorns and dry red chilli. Let it cool & grind. Heat oil, add seasoned ingredients, groundnut & fenugreek powder. Add tamarind mixture let it boil till thickens. Add rice & ground powder mix well

Temple style Puliyodharai / Puliyogare / Tamarind rice video

Ingredients

• Rice - 2 cups
• Groundnuts - 3 tbsp
• Sesame seed - 1 tbsp
• Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp
• Tamarind - 100 Grams or 1 lemon size
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Bengal gram -1 tbsp
• Urad dal - 1/2 tbsp
• Jaggery - 10 Grams or 1 1/2 tbsp
• Turmeric powder- 1 tsp
• Peppercorns-1 tbsp
• Fenugreek seeds- 1 tbsp
• Asafoetida - 1 tsp
• Dry red Red chillies - 2 nos
• Salt to taste
• Curry leaves - 1 spring
• Sesame oil - 3 tbsp
• Water as needed

Preparation

• Boil rice, spread over the plate let it cool to avoid stickiness
• Soak tamarind in warm water for 15 minutes and get thick extract.
• Dry roast groundnut, let it cool & peel off the skin
• Dry roast fenugreek, let it cool & grind.
• Dry roast coriander seeds, peppercorns, sesame seeds & dry red chilli, let it cool & coarsely grind
• Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds let it crackle.
• Add Bengal gram, urad dal, dry red chilli, curry leaves one by one.
• Add groundnut saute
• Add Asafoetida & turmeric powder.
• Add fenugreek powder saute for 1 min.
• Add tamarind extract & salt mix well let it boil till thickens.
• Then add Jaggery and let it cook for 2 minutes.
• Add rice & salt mix well
• Add freshly ground powder and pour 1 tbsp sesame oil mix well
• Keep it for some time so that the rice will absorb the powder and gives nice texture.

Note

• Keep the puliyogre for more than 6 hours so that rice will absorb powder mixes and tamarind and taste more. Avoid eating the pulioyogre immediately.

Tip

• Use black tamarind.

How this Tamararind Rice recipe is Unique?

• The ground powder only adds the taste to the puliyogre. So dont forget to add it. Enjoy!

Tamarind rice or Puliyodharai Step by step procedure & Pictures [Simple, Easy to make]

Tamarind paste

Dry roasted fenugreek

Dry roasted coriander seeds

Dry roasted sesame seeds

Dry roasted black pepper

Dry roasted red chilli

Add mustard, bengal gram, urad dal

Add Asafoetida powder

Add turmeric powder

Add dry red chilli

Add Curry leaves

Add roasted peanuts [nilakadalai]

Add tamarind puree

Add sea salt mix well

Add jaggery & let it thickens

Boiled rice

Spread the rice

Add puliyodharai mixture, mix well without white rice

Fully Mixed

Add crushed dry red chilli

Add coriander powder [Freshly ground]

Add fenugreek powder [Freshly ground]

Add sesame powder

Add gingelly oil mix well

Temple puliyodharai is now ready [Ready to serve]

Puliyogare