Andhra Style Pulihora Recipe with step by step pictures. Tangy and spicy pulihora recipe which is easy to make in a pressure cooker.

Pulihora Recipe
Thinking of puliyogare reminds me about my friend eshu, I have mentioned about her in my lemon rice recipe post. She loves lemon rice, pulihora a lot, she can eat it all day. So I dedicate this recipe to her. I know she will like this a lot. Now talking about pulihora. It is my favorite too.
About Pulihora Recipe
Amma makes it often for lunch and what she makes to accompany this is some lovely potato roast and papad. You can check here for the recipe of my favorite potato roast. I have given step by step recipe for puliyogare kulambu which you can store it fridge for a couple of weeks.
I think you can store more than that, but in our house it won't last that long. If you have pulikaichal in your fridge then making pulihora is a breeze. This can be put in lunch box for kids they will surely love it.
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Pulihora Recipe | Andhra Style Pulihora Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice
- 4 tablespoon Split Channa Dal
- 4 tablespoon Tamarind Pulp
For Seasoning:
- 4 tablespoon Oil
- 1 teaspoon Mustard Seeds
- 4 tablespoon Raw Peanuts
- 1 tablespoon Split Channa Dal
- 1 tablespoon Urad dal
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
- 6 Dry Red Chilli
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
- 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash rice and dal together and take them in a pressure cooker. Pour 2 ½ to 3 cups of water and
- pressure cook them for 3 whistle. Switch off the flame. Let the pressure go all by itself, open the pressure cooker and fluff it with a fork.
- Now lets makes the tamarind paste. Take tamarind pulp and add half cup of water and bring it to a boil. Cook this till the pulp gets cooked and thick and raw smell gets away. If you are using whole tamarind fruit, first soak that in warm water for 15 mins, squeeze to get the pulp out, strain it and continue with the process.
- Pour this tamarind pulp over the rice and mix well. Now make the seasoning. Heat oil in a kadai. Add all the ingredients given the seasoning list in the given order and fry them on low heat for 2-3 mins till everything is toasted.
- Pour this seasoning over the rice and mix well.
- Serve hot with papad and pickle.
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Pulihora Recipe Step by Step Pictures
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| Wash Rice & Chana Dal Together |
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| Add it to pressure cooker along with water |
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| and let them cook |
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| Extract tamarind pulp from the fruit |
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| Boil it so that it gets cooked |
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| It should be thick and glossy |
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| add that to the cooked rice |
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| and mix well |
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| Now lets make seasoning |
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| heat oil |
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| add channa dal and mustard |
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| add peanuts |
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| cumin and urad dal |
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| add in chillies and cook till they are toasted. |
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| now add in salt and turmeric |
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| mix well |
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| pour that in the rice |
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| and mix well |
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| Serve |
Tips & Tricks
- Adjust the spice level as per you taste.
- If you are storing this in fridge, add the prepared spice powder in the gravy and mix well. You can store this in an air tight bottle in fridge.
- Tamarind rice taste depends mostly on fenugreek and chillies. So make sure you don't skip the roasting of the spices.
- Peanuts add nice crunch to the dish so add generous amount in tamarind rice.
- Tamarind rice stays good for many hours. it is one of the best travel friendly recipe.
If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @aarthi198689@gmail.com and I'll help as soon as I can.
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