How to Make Puliogare
Puliyogare is a traditional South Indian rice dish. Here's how to make it.
[edit] Ingredients
- 1 cup thick tamarind juice
- salt to taste
- 1 TBSP sugar or 1 small piece of jaggery
- Seasoning:
- 7 TBSP oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Urad dal (black gram dal)
- 2 TBSP peanuts
- 1 tsp chana dal
- 3-4 red chillis
- a few curry leaves
- Grinding
- 1 cup dessicated coconut or shredded copra
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1 tsp peppercorns
- a pinch of asafoetida
- 6-8 red chillis
- 1 tsp cumin
- curry leaves
- 2 tsp sesame seeds
- 2 tsp chana dal
- 1 tsp peanuts
- 1 tsp urad dal
[edit] Steps
- Roast all the above ingredients one by one and grind until smooth except coconut. Then add dessicated coconut and grind once again to mix well.
- Soak tamarind in warm water for an hour and extract juice from it. Keep aside.
- Cook Heat oil in a pan. Add all the seasonings one by one. When mustard seeds splutters, add tamarind juice. Mix well. Now add jaggery/sugar and salt. Allow to boil.
- Add ground powder to the boiling juice. Turn heat to medium and boil for few more minutes till the juice becomes thick and oil separates.
- Preparing it on the microwave with a mix:
- Heat one bowl of rice mixed in with about one to two tea spoons of oil for about one or two minutes. Spoon in puliogare powder until the rice seems a medium brown, and stir. You can garnish it with fresh mint leaves or fried onions.
