Tamarind Rice

• 3 cups Rice, cooked

• 1 cup (100 gms) Tamarind 

• 1/4 cup Bengal dal 

• 1/4 cup Peanuts 

• 2 tsp Turmeric 

• 2 tbsp Mustard seeds 

• 1 tsp Jeera 

• 1 tsp Hing 

• 1 small bunch of Curry leaves 

• 15 Red chilies 

• 7 Green chilies 

• 1/2 cup Oil 

• Salt

Preparation: 

Soak tamarind in water and extract thick juice out of it.

To the cooked rice, add salt and a little oil and mix it well. Keep it separately.

Now in a frying pan, take tamarind extract, add salt, turmeric in it and cook until it thickens.

Add this cooked tamarind extract (according to taste) into the rice and mix well.

Heat oil in a pan, add bengal dal, green chilies, urad dal, peanuts, red chilies, curry leaves, mustard, jeera and hing and fry.

As the ingredients turns brown and the mustard starts to splutter, mix all these to the above prepared rice.