Tamarind Rice - Easy Method

Ingredients

• • Rice - 1 cup
• • Tamarind - lime size
• • Red chillies - 3
• • Coriander seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Fenugreek - a little
• • Pepper - ½ teaspoon
• • Asafoetidas - a pinch
• • Turmeric powder - ¼ teaspoon
• • Gingelly oil - 2 tablespoons
• • Curry leaves - few
• • Salt - as required

Method

• 1. Cook rice and allow it to cool.
• 2. Soak tamarind in two cups of water and extract.
• 3. Strain and keep.
• 4. Heat little oil and fry broken red chillies.
• 5. Add tamarind pulp with turmeric powder and asafoetida.
• 6. Reduce the extract to thick pulp.
• 7. Add coarsely powdered pepper and salt.
• 8. Remove from fire.
• 9. Fry fenugreek and coriander seeds in little oil and powder.
• 10. Add everything to cooked rice and mix well.
• 11. Heat little oil and add it, with curry leaves to rice.