PULIKUTTHI UPMA

Pulikutthi upma is made out of broken rice.  During 70's when I was in my native place, we used to get rice from the ration shop which we used not only for cooking, but also for making, idli, dosa and karuvadams.  That rice was best for karuvadams.  This rice contained broken rice too which we used to separate through a sieve and used for making pulikutthi upma.

Puli means tamarind.  Yes this upma is made in tamarind sauce and served with sutta appalam or roasted papad.  My mother used to make this lovely upma which I still remember and the taste was awesome. Though I used to make it, I still prefers my mother's upma  as it was too good.

Now let us look at the recipe now:
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Ingredients:

1/4 cup broken rice.
a small lemon sized ball of tamarind
4 tsp sesame oil (til oil)
a pinch of asafoetida
a pinch of turmeric powder
1 tsp salt

Tempering:

1 green chilli chopped
1 red chilli broken into pieces
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp chana dal
1 tbps peanuts
few curry leaves

Method:

Wash and soak the rice in 2 cups of water.  soak the tamarind in 1/2 cup hot water and extract the pulp.
Heat oil in kadai.  add the mustard seeds, chana dal, peanuts, red/green chilli,  curry leaves.  when it is done, add asafoetida, tamarind pulp, turmeric powder and bring to boil.  Now add the rice and the water.  add salt. bring to boil, cover and cook till it is done.  serve hot with roasted papad.

Hope you will like the above recipe.  Do give me your feed back. till then happy cooking.


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