Yesterday I was chatting with my mom about Lunch box recipes. She recalled her college days and told my grandma's tamarind rice was a big hit among her college friends. She used to carry minimum 3 lunch boxes whenever my grandma prepares this tamarind rice. Immediately I noted down the recipe and prepared it today. Please Check below for Step by step instructions and pictures for preparing my Grandma's Recipe - Pepper Tamarind Rice
Cook Time : 30 mins
Ready in : 40 mins
Yields : 3 Servings
Yields : 3 Servings
Ingredients:
Gingelly Oil
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tbsp
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Tamarind
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Big lemon size
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Cooked Rice
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3 cups
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Roasted Peanuts
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1/4 Cup
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Shallots
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1/2 Cup
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Garlic cloves cut lengthwise
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5
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Red Chilly
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1
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Curry leaves
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5
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Turmeric powder
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1/4 tsp
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Powdered Jaggery
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2 tbsp
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Salt
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- Dry roast channa dal, urad dal, sesame seeds, fenugreek seeds, black pepper corn and red chilli. Allow it to cool and grind it to a fine powder.
- Soak tamarind in hot water for 10 minutes. Squeeze the seeds and fibre to get the tamarind juice.
- Heat Oil in the pan and add mustard. When they splutter, add shallots, curry leaves,red chilly and garlic. Fry till shallots turn translucent. Add the grind-ed powder and fry for 2 mins.
- Add tamarind juice and turmeric powder. Allow it to boil.
- Add jaggery and salt. Allow the gravy to thicken.
- Add rice, roasted peanuts. Adjust salt to your taste.
- Adjust pepper and red chilly to your taste.
- Adding Jaggery is optional. It increases the tangy taste of the recipe. It can be replaced by sugar.
- Shallots give the unique taste to the recipe. Don't replace it with onions.
- Unless the shallots are big, don't chop the shallots.
- Authentic South Indian tamarind recipes uses gingelly Oil.
- Adding roasted peanuts is optional
I love tamarind rice, this looks superb :) makes me crave for some
ReplyDeleteThanks Priya
DeleteI like tamarind rice a lot ... it looks so yummy ...
DeleteWow...yummy
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