Puliogare/Puliogre / Gojju Chitranna

Ingredients

Rice	2 cups
Tamrind	100 gms
Rasam powder	2 tbsp
Sesame seeds	5 tbsp
Methi/fenugreek	2 tbsp
Cumin seeds	2tbsp
Mustard seeds	½ tsp
Channa dhal/ Urid dhal	1 tsp each
Turmeric	½ tsp
Hing/Asafatido	¼ tsp
Peanuts	A handful
Jiggery/brown sugar	3 tbsp
Curry leaves	1 sprig
Oil	2 tbsp
Salt	According to taste

Method

1. Wash tamarind and soak in warm water for 15 mins. Squeeze the thick pulp and keep it aside.
2. In a heavy bottomed pot/pan, heat tamarind juice, rasam powder, salt and jaggery until the gravy becomes thick and the raw smell goes.
3. Cook rice and spread it in a bowl to cool.
4. Meanwhile in a flat pan, dry roast cumin seeds and fenugreek seeds until light brown in colour. Do the same with sesame seeds as well. When it completely cools, powder it in a blender and keep it aside.
5. When the tamarind gravy is cool, add the sesame, cumin seed and fenugreek powder and mix it well. Check for the taste of salt and sweet fix it according to your taste.
6. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, turmeric, channa dhal and urid dhal and peanuts and ingu. Also add some broken red chillies for extra hot flavour and in the end add curry leaves.
7. Mix everything with the gravy and add this to the rice and mix.

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