Puliodharai | Puliyodharai Recipe

Whenever I go to temple I use to buy puliodharai. I liked it very much. It is a good one pot meal. It is apt for picnics. The best combination of puliodharai is potato chips,javvarisi vadam and killu vadam.

Ingredients:

• Cooked rice – 3 cup
• Tamarind – lemon size
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Salt – to taste

• To grind:
• Coriander – 1 tblsp
• Channa dal – 1 tblsp
• Sesame seed (white) – 1 tblsp
• Red chilli – 2
• Fenugreek – ½ tsp

• To temper
• Gingelly oil – 3 tblsp
• Mustard – 1 tsp
• Urad dal – 1 tsp
• Channa dal – 1 tsp
• Peanut – 1 tblsp
• Redchilli – 3
• Asafoetida – ½ tsp
• Curry leaves – few

Method:

Roast the item under “to grind” in little oil and grind it in a mixie coarsely. Soak tamarind and extract the juice.Heat gingelly oil in a pan and add all the item under “to temper”. When they crackle add tamarind juice, turmeric powder and salt. Cook till the oil oozes out. Finally add ground powder and mix it well. Cook the rice and spread in the broad bowl. Add little by little to the rice and mix it with a fork. Check the salt and sour and add the puli kaichal.

Note:
Don’t pour the pulikaichal full. You can add little by little and check the taste and add.
If you want you can add cashew nuts also.
You can add black sesame seed also.