Puli sundal recipe
Puli sundal @ Puli upma recipe in a pressure cooker - Easy one pot dinner/breakfast/lunch box recipe.
Servings: 2 people
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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