Varutha puli sadam | Tamarind rice with leftover rice
Varutha puli sadam is a variety rice recipe made with leftover rice, tamarind and red chillies.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 1 lemon sized tamarind (soak in warm water)
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp. oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tbsp. gram dal
- 1 tbsp. urad dal
- 8 red chillies
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- ¼ tsp asafoetida
Instructions
Preparation:
- Cook rice and let to cool down completely.
- Instead, you can use leftover cooked rice.
- Soak tamarind in warm water for 20 minutes at least.
- Extract a cup of thick tamarind juice.
- Add turmeric powder and required salt for the tamarind rice in the tamarind water.
- Mix this tamarind water with cooked rice.
- Combine well and at the same time gently with the rice.
- Cover with a lid and keep aside for 4 to 8 hours or overnight.
Recipe to make varutha puli sadam:
- Heat oil, season with mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Also, add gram dal and urad dal.
- At this stage, you can also use ground nuts.
- Fry the lentils to golden brown color.
- Add split red chillies, curry leaves and saute for two minutes.
- Put some asafoetida.
- Now add the mixed rice.
- Fry the tamarind rice in oil until rice gets the heat and spice.
- Do this for at least five in low heat and switch off.
- Serve hot with coconut chutney or Potato Fry.
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Notes
Tips: 1) First of all, this varutha puli sadam is one of the tasty variety of rice recipes and the best option for the lunch box. 2) In addition, it matches very well with simple potato fry and ideal for travel packing. 3) As the name suggests, this recipe demands to fry in the pan for a few minutes and that explains the usage of a bit more oil.
Nutrition
Calories: 350kcal
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