Ingredients
- Raw Rice – 2 cups
- Tamarind – Lemon size
- Turmeric powder – ¼ teaspoon
To fry and grind:
- Red chillies– 1
- Coriander seeds – 1 teaspoon
- Bengal gram dhal – 1 teaspoon
- Fenugreek seeds – ¼ teaspoon
- For seasoning:
- Gingelly Oil – 4 or 5 tablespoon
- Mustard – Half teaspoon
- Red chillies – 3
- Bengal Gram Dhal – 1 teaspoon
- Ground Nut – 1 tablespoon
- Asafoetida – ¼ teaspoon
- Curry leaves – few
- Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Directions
- Cook rice till soft (but not mushy). Put it in a plate or broad vessel and spread it. Sprinkle one or two teaspoon oil over it.
- Soak tamarind and salt in water and squeeze out the juice. Break the red chillies into four or five pieces.
- In a kadai put the oil and when it is hot add mustard. When it pops up, add Bengal gram dhal and fry till it turns light brown. Add ground nut, red chillies and curry leaves and fry for a while. Add tamarind juice along with turmeric powder and asafetida powder. Let it boil on medium heat.
- Meantime, take another kadai and put one teaspoon oil and fry one red chilli, bengal gram dhal, Urad Dhal, coriander seeds and the fenugreek seeds. Cool it and powder it.
- Add this powder to the tamarind mixture. Mix well and cook till the oil floats on top. Remove it from stove. It look like tamarind paste.
- Add this paste gradually to rice and mix gently. When mixing you can add one or two teaspoon gingelly oil.
Tips:
To get the real taste, you have to use only gingelly oil. You can use ground nut with skin or without skin. If you want crispy taste, instead of adding the groundnut while seasoning, you can add when mixing the rice. Instead of ground nut, you can add soaked whole gram (Kondai kadalai) along with the tamarind juice and cook.
If you use Katti Perungayam (Hard Asafoetida), you can fry along with other ingredients and powder it. If you use asafoetida powder, then add it in the seasoning.
If you like, you can also add one or two teaspoons of til seeds (Ellu) along with the roasting ingredients and powder it.
hello aunty,
Tamarind Rice came out well and the receipe is awesome. I had been regularly trying your receipes and it is really very good. One of my friend is in 4th month, but she has morning sickness and nausea. Want to call her home for lunch,can you please suggest what kind of rice and side dish I can make for her.
Looking forward for your reply.
Thanks,
Hema
Hi Hema,
Thank you for your kind comments. For your friend, you can make “Puzhi Kuzhambu” (Check here for recipe: http://www.kamalascorner.com/2011/11/garlic-brinjal-puzhi-kuzhambu.html
Also try any other Vatha Kuzhambu variety, recipe available in my blog.
Try “Orange Skin Pachadi”, “Ginger Thokku” “Garlic Coriander Podi” or even “Kothumalli Thokku”. Recipes for all the above are available in my site.
Thank you so much aunty for your kind suggestion.
Hello Kamala
Happy and prosperous new year and Pongal. The above receipe i have tried it came out nicely. i want to know how to make puliyodarai powder.
hello aunty,
i tried ur tamarind reccipe today, it was great, just like what u get in shop. but the oil i added was totally taken up by the gravy, it didn’t have that floating oil look. May i know why so, should i add more oil?
Hi Preethi,
To get the floating oil look, you have to add more oil and it is necessary if you want to preserve the paste for long. Otherwise, just use the oil mentioned in the above recipe.
hello mam,
can this paste be preserved and for how long. can it be preserved in the fridge.please reply.
regards,
devika
Hi Devika,
This “Puli Kaichal” (Tamarind paste) can be stored for a week and even for more days if you keep it in the fridge and use only dry spoons.
hi kamala, this measurement is for 2 cups of cooked rice or uncooked raw rice. plz tell me.
thanks
Hi Priya,
It is for 2 cups uncooked rice.
mam u didn’t mentioned how much urad dal should b used for grinding?…..
Hi Bharathi,
Your question is under Tamarind rice and cannot understand. Can you please let me know what exactly you want.
Mam
In your preparation column you have mentioned about urad dhal and in the items to be fried and ground, it is not mentioned. Can u let us know whether urad dhal is needed for the ground powder.
It is missed out in the ingredients column. I will add it.