Pulihora - Tamarind Rice

ingredients

• White Rice       3 cups
• Tamarind          thick pulp    1/2 cup
• Turmeric           liittle
• Salt to taste 

 for seasoning 

•  oil                       5tsp
•  Red Chillies        2
•  Mustard              2tsp
•  Cumin                 1 tsp
•  Green chillies      4
•  Groundnuts        10 no.s
•  Curry leaves 
•  Asoeftida            2 pinches        

Procedure

1. Soak the tamarind for around half an hour in water and extract juice and keep it aside.
2. Heat oil in a a frying pan and , seasoning with redchili, mustard, cumin, gram dal, ground nuts, asoeftida, greenchillie and curry leaves.
3.  Add the seasoning to the cooked rice.
4.  Now take the tamarind juice. in the same pane, add salt and turmeric,  boil it till the tamarind juice becomes a thick consistent paste ( till all the water evaporates ). 
5. Add the pulp  to the cooked rice. Mix well. Serve min. after 1/2 an hour.