PULLIKACHAL

INGREDIENTS:-

Tamarind (size of 2 betel nut)

8-10 Dried red chillies

1tsp Mustard seeds

1tbsp Chana dal

1/2Cup Pea nuts

Curry Leaves

1tsp Vendiyam(Fenugreek)

1tsp Ellu (Sesame)

Salt to taste

1/2 Pinch Asafoetida

1/2 pinch Turmeric powder

PROCEDURE:-

Take a bowl and make a thick paste of the tamarind.Keep it aside.Take a kadhai and put oil in it.

When the oil gets heated up,put the mustard seeds ,when it splutters add 4 red chillies,chana dal,curry leaves and the peanuts.Fry for 1min.Now add the tamarind paste to it.

Now we can add turmeric powder, salt to taste and asafoetida.

Take another kadhai and add 1/2 tsp oil and fry the fenugreek and sesame.Powder the sesame and fenugreek.Add this powder to the above pullikachal.

Let this boil till it thickens.

This can be mixed with hot rice to make pulliyodarai or pulliyogare.

This can also be taken with Curd rice.