This is one of grandma’s recipes which each of us in the family would love to be cooked by her.A very easy one pot meal which I would recommend for working mothers and even bachelors.
Ingredients:
- Rice-1 cup
- Toor dhal-1/2 cup
- Garlic-8
- Shallots-10
- Tamarind-Half of lemon size
- Red Chilly-3
- Coconut -1/4 cup grated
- Cumin seeds-1/4 tbsp
- Turmeric powder-A pinch
- Salt-To taste
- Oil-To cook
Procedure:
1.Wash rice and dhal and soak them for 10 minutes.
2.Grind coconut and cumin seeds and set it aside.
3.Soak tamarind and prepare half cup of tamarind extract.
4.Add oil in a kadai and temper with mustard seeds,urad dhal.
5.As it splutters, add shallots,garlic,red chilly and saute well.
6.Add rice,cooked dhal,the coconut cumin seeds paste and all prepared in step.5 in a vessel in pressure cooker.
7.Add turmeric powder ,salt and pressure cook with 1/2 cup of tamarind extract + 1 and 1/2 cups of water.
8.Once pressure cooked,mix well and serve it hot.
My Observations:
Adjust red chilly as per your taste.
Adding onion vadagam will add more taste.
The ratio of tamarind extract:water is 1:2.
In step 6,you can also add toor dhal,rice,turmeric powder and saute before pressure cooking.
You can also pre cook dhal separately.
This goes well with any deep fry or vathal/vadagam or pickle.
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