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 TAMARIND RICE

Ingredients:

• Rice- 2 cups
• Tamarind - big lemon sized
• Red chillies -6
• Coriander seeds - 2 tsp
• Fenugreek - 1 tsp
• Black pepper - 1 tsp
• Chana dal - 2 tsp
• Urad dal - 2 tsp
• Sesame seeds - 1 tsp
  
• Asafoetida - 3 to 4 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
• Gingilli oil - 4 tbsp
• Curry leaves - 5 tsp
• Peanuts - 1/4 cup 
• Cashewnuts - 3 tbsp (optional)
  
• Salt to taste

Recipes Direction:

• Cook rice and allow it cool. Soak Tamarind in two cups of water and extract.Strain and keep.
• Heat little oil add all the spices, urad dal, coriander seeds and chana dal and stirring often roast them on a low flame. Then grind into powder keep aside.
• Heat 4 tbsp oil in a large pan add 1 tsp mustard seeds, 1 tsp urad sal and 1/4 cup peanuts. (if you want you can roast peanuts separately). Add tamarind pulp with turmeric powder and asafoetida. Reduce the extract to thick pulp.
• Add coarsely powdered. Mix well.  Remove from fire. Add everything to cooked rice and mix well. Heat little oil and add it , with curry leaves to rice.