Peanut Podi Pulihora
Peanut Podi Pulihora is tangy tamarind rice prepared the regular way with adding the roasted peanut powder in the end. This is a wonderful variation if you want to try a new mixed rice dish with tamarind.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 2 cups Rice Cooked
- 1 big Tamarind Extract made from 1 big lemon size ball.
- Handful Curry leaves
- 2 tbsp Peanuts roasted whole
- 1 tbsp Chana Dal
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1/2 tsp Urad dal
- 10 nos Dry Red Chilies
- 2 medium Green Chilies
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing
- 1 tbsp Roasted Peanut Powder
- Salt to taste
- 2 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 10 whole Cashew Nuts
Instructions
- Have the cooked rice ready and sprinkle a tsp of oil and spread on a plate for it to cool down.
- Wash, soak, and extract the pulp from tamarind. Keep it aside.
- In a Kadai, heat oil, add mustard, urad dal, chana dal, peanuts, curry leaves and saute well.
- Then add the dry red chilies, green chilies, hing, turmeric powder. Mix and cook for a couple of mins.
- Now add the tamarind extract and bring to boil. Add water if required.
- Continue cooking until the mix is well cooked and becomes thick.
- Once the tamarind gravy is thick and oil comes out of the side, switch from gas.
- Add the to the Kadai and mix well.
- Finally the roasted ground peanut podi and mix well.
- Offer as Neivedyam and partake!
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