Puli sundal @ Puli upma recipe is an easy one pot meal we make for dinner. This is nothing but South Indian style puli upma but my MIL call this as Puli sundal. Its an easy, one pot recipe that is made with easily available ingredients like rice and toor dal (Arisi and Thuvaram paruppu) in a pressure cooker.
It is an authentic dinner recipe that is made in Kumbakonam, Mayavaram areas of Tamil nadu. We sometimes have the leftover upma for breakfast as well. I learnt this recipe from my MIL. It tastes the best with chopped pearl onions/Sambar onions as side dish. Also you should top it with Gingely oil / Sesame oil before eating. Tastes great.
Bachelors & working women can try this recipe to make an easy dinner after coming home late from the office OR make this for lunch box during busy morning hours. You can finish the entire process within 15 minutes in a pressure cooker or an Instant pot. Do try it and let me know how you liked it.
Puli sundal recipe
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- 1 cup Steamed Rice / Saapaatu arisi / Parboiled rice (Puzhungal rice used for lunch) ( I used puzhungal arisi)
- 2 tbsp Toor dal
- 3 cups Water ( depending on your rice )
- Tamarind Small lemon size
To temper
- 2 tbsp Oil
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Urad dal
- ½ tsp Asafetida /Hing
- Curry leaves a sprig
- 2 – 3 Red chillies
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Soak tamarind in warm water for 10 minutes. In the mean time, heat a kadai and dry roast toor dal till it turns light golden brown with a nice smell. Remove and keep in a plate. In the same hot kadai, dry roast the rice till it turns white and puffs up slightly. Remove and keep it with toor dal. Now wash the roasted rice and toor dal and keep it ready.
- Extract tamarind juice using 3 cups of water as mentioned above. Its not necessary that you should use all the 3 cups for extracting the juice. You can use how much ever you want. Remaining water you can add as it is. Total water should be 3 cups.
- In a pressure cooker base, heat oil and splutter mustard seeds, urad dal, pinched red chilli, curry leaves & half of the hing. ( ie 1/4 tsp). Add the tamarind extract,turmeric powder, salt, curry leaves & remaining hing. Pressure cook in low flame for one whistle. It takes 10-15 minutes based on the size of cooker.
- Remove and serve by adding a tsp of gingely oil. Tastes the best with chopped, raw small onions. Enjoy !
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Hot , Yummy Puli Sundal is ready. U can eat this as it is!! If needed u can have this with coconut chutney!! But chopped pearl onions is the best side dish for this rice. Pickle will also do !
Very new to me, looks like yummy dish for breakfast!:)
Hey, looks yum.. These are like puliogare, but with toor dal.. New to me.. Need to try !!
I have neve rhad this , would love to taste them.
I have never had this, sounds delicious and very unique…just one little thing, in your ingredients, you mention 6 cups of rice the second time is that 6 cups of water?
I make puli upma with broken rice. This is new to me and looks yummy. Nice information on the ingredients.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and your lovely comments too.
lovely upma..have added u to my list
craving for some now! Yummy!
Reading sundal i was expecting snack with beans! What a new dish , yummy!
wow..nice recipe..will try it sometime..
THANKS ASHA,ARCHY,HAPPY COOK FOR EXCELLENT COMMENTS!!
Thank u so much usha for mentioning the mistake.its 6 cups of water not rice.I corrected it.Thanks a lot:)
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Thought its with some beans..quite new..
This is very new to me, I love the tamarind flavor in most of my dishes, I am sure to like this one :)
Thanku priya and gita:)
That’s a new recipe to me. Congrats on your new blog Chitra, all the best and let me know if you need any help :)
That’s new to me too…looks yummy
Thanku nags.So nice of u:)
Thanks priti:)
this is interesting…will hve to try it..since m a rice lover..;p
hey Chitra thnks for following sweets.
u hve a great place too :)
Very good recipe…. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
something new n intresting, worth try…
Yeah tasty n delicious dish indeed. my amma also do this.. we love to have my amma hands puli uppuma..
yrs tempting me now.
My Hubby loves these type of dishes Chitra..Thanks for posting..Looks yummy..:)
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Thanku navita,vani,neha,adlak’s and varsha for dropping by and left lovely comments.Thanku frnds:)
A handful of soaked groundnuts if added is very tasty and healthy. try it
Very new to me. Thanks for the wonderful recipe. I dont know how the taste will be.
Puli Sundal's sounds delicious and very unique. It looks so beautiful! Will try it soon. Thanks so much for great recipes.