Tamarind Bhath With Roasted Rice

Ingredients

• • Rice - 1 cup
• • Onions - 3
• • Green chillies - 4
• • Red chillies - 5
• • Tamarind - medium lemon size
• • Salt - as required
• • Jaggery - 1 teaspoon (optional)
• • Oil - 2 tablespoons
• • Curry leaves - few

Ingredients For Seasoning

• • Mustard seeds - ¼ teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - 1 teaspoon

Method

• 1. Heat a broad frying pan and roast plain rice (without adding oil) in medium flame constantly till it becomes golden in colour.
• 2. Remove from fire and allow it to cool.
• 3. Dice onions into two.
• 4. Break red chillies.
• 5. Soak tamarind and extract juice.
• 6. Make it up as three cups by adding more water.
• 7. Heat a pressure cooker or pan.
• 8. Pour oil , tamper mustard seeds and bengal gram.
• 9. Add red chillies, curry leaves, green chillies and then onion.
• 10. Fry for two minutes till onion becomes transparent.
• 11. Add tamarind extract, salt and jaggery.
• 12. When it starts boiling, add roasted rice and mix well.
• 13. Cover and keep the weight on top.
• 14. Reduce flame and cook for 10 minutes.
• 15. After removing the lid , mix well and serve hot.