Tamarind Rice

Recipe Type:	Veg.
Difficulty:	Average

Ingredients:

• 3 cups Rice
• 1 cup (100 gms) Tamarind
• 1/4 cup Chana dal (soaked)
• 1 tsp Urad Dal (soaked)
• 1/4 cup Peanuts
• 2 tsp Turmeric
• 2 tbsp Mustard seeds
• 1 tsp Jeera
• 1 tsp Hing
• 1 small bunch of Curry leaves
• 5 Red chilies
• 2 Green chilies
• 1/2 cup Oil
• Salt

Cooking Instructions:

• Soak tamarind in water and extract thick juice out of it.
• Cook rice, add salt and a little oil and mix it well. Keep it separately.
• Now in a frying pan, take tamarind extract, add salt, turmeric in it and cook until it thickens.
• Add this cooked tamarind extract (according to taste) into the rice and mix well.
• Heat oil in a pan, add chana dal, green chilies, urad dal, peanuts, red chilies, curry leaves, mustard, jeera and hing and fry.
• As the ingredients turns brown and the mustard starts to splutter, mix all these to the above prepared rice.
• Now Tamarind Rice is ready.