Description AÂ very popular rice preparation especially for picnics
Ingredients
4 cups cooked rice completely cooled
100 gm tamarind
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp channa dhal
1 tsp mustard seeds
4 – 5 dry red chillies
5-6 curry leaves
AÂ pinch of hing
Salt to taste
2 tbsp oil
Method
- Soak the tamarind in water for sometime and extract a thick juice
- Heat the oil and add the mustard seeds, channa dhal, hing and curry leaves
- When the channa dhal turns a light brown add the red chillies and turmeric powder
- Add the tamarind juice and allow it to boil till it thickens slightly
- Add salt to taste
- Mix this paste with the cooked rice.