Recipe: Puliyodarai Recipe

Ganesh Chaturthi is incomplete without piping hot Puliyodarai.

Ingredients :

Cooked Rice
Tamarind
4 or 5 cups water
1/2 cup Udad dal
1/2 cup Channa dal
1/4 tsp Hing
Red chillies
5 -6 spoons of oil
Corriander seeds
Red chillies
Mustard seeds
Methi seeds
Curry leaves
Groundnuts

Procedure:

Soak good amount of tamarind in hot water for 10 minutes and after you remove the pulp, place it in a cup.

Grind coriander seeds and red chillies into a fine powder.

Heat about 5-6 spoons of oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, udad dal, methi seeds, channa dal, hing, curry leaves, red chilli and groundnuts and fry them all till they turn golden brown.

Put red chilli powder (according to taste) and 1/2 spoon of turmeric powder and tamarind water into it.

Also add salt (according to taste) with the grinded powder.

Allow it to cook when it becomes thick like chutney, remove from flame and mix it with rice to serve Puliyodarai.