Tamarind rice (Puli Sadham)is a popular recipe in south India. Whenever I have plenty of leftover rice, I prepare this. I can say It's the perfect way to use leftover rice and it is easy to prepare also. Just marinate the rice with tamarind pulp, sambar powder, turmeric powder, and a little salt, cover, and keep it overnight. And the next day morning you just need to do tadka and add the rice. Along with this I prepare some coconut chutney and serve this as breakfast.
Ingredients
- Cooked Rice - 2 cups
- Oil- 3 tbsp
- Bengal Gram - 1/2 tbsp
- Black Gram - 1/2 tbsp
- Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
- Curry Leaves - few
- Dry Red Chillies - 8 nos
- Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
- Sambar powder - 1/2 tsp
- Roasted Peanuts - 2 tbsp
- Shallots - 10nos, peeled and chopped (or u can use 1 big red onion) - optional
- Tamarind - lemon sized
Method
- Soak tamarind in water and leave for few minutes and take out the extract.
- In a large bowl place the leftover rice, add the tamarind pulp, sambar powder, turmeric powder, salt, and mix well.
- Heat oil in kadai, add bengal gram, urad dal, and fry for 30 seconds, then add mustard seeds to it and let them splutter.
- Add dry red chilies and curry leaves and fry till the red chilies turn lightly brown.
- Now add chopped onions to it and fry till it turns pink.
- Add the peanuts, salt and mix well.
- Finally, add the rice and mix well.
- Take a thick extract from tamarind, don't add too much water, otherwise, the rice becomes soggy.
- Do not add too much sambar powder b'cos its flavor will dominate.
