Pulihora

Ingredients:

2 cup Rice
¼ cup Bengal Gram

2 nos. Lemon (Juice)
¼ cup Tamarind pulp

10 leaves Curry Leaf
1 tsp Ginger chopped

4 tsp Vegetable Oil
2 tsp Black gram

½ tsp Mustard seeds

4 no Red Chilies

2 no Green Chilies
6 cashew nuts

¼ tsp Turmeric

4 tsp Sesame Seeds
2 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp Asafetida
¼ cup coriander leaves

Salt to taste

Directions:

In a pan lightly roast, Sesame seeds, Red chilies, Asafetida and Coriander seeds. And grind into fine powder. Wash rice and Bengal gram dal together and cook adding enough water. Make sure not to overcook. Soak tamarind in enough water and squeeze out half a cup pulp. While rice is getting cooked rest of the ingredients can be made ready. Boil the tamarind juice till it becomes semi-thick. Pour the cooked rice into a big bowl, add turmeric powder, two tablespoons oil, salt, tamarind pulp and two twigs of curry leaves, green chilies chopped, ginger chopped, to the piping hot rice. Heat the pan with oil. When heated add black gram dal, mustard, cashew nuts. When golden, add red chilies, ginger, curry leaves, green chilies, and asafetida. Remove from flame and add it to the rice. Mix thoroughly by adding sesame powder and coriander leaves. Now leave it covered for an hour to allow the rice to absorb the ingredients.