Thursday 18 June 2015

Chiguru chitranna/ tender tamarind leaves rice

Chiguru chitranna/tender tamarind leaves rice:

Back here after a long time. Prepared this dish during chiguru( spring) season and posting it almonst in monsoon. This is my granny's recipe.
Chitranna is a one pot meal,  also known as lemon rice, as lemon is used in the recipe to give the tartness . In this recepe lemon is replaced by tamarind leaves.Here goes the recipe.


Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup
tender tamarind leaves- 1/2 cup( loosely packed)
Sesame seeds- 1 tbsp

For tampering :
Oil-3tbsp
mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
channa dal- 1 tsp
urad dal- 1 tsp
raw peanuts- 2 tbsp
curry leaves- 1 spring
green chillies chopped- 2( increase acc to taste)
Asafoetida- 1/4 tsp
Roasted methi powder- 1/4 th tsp
turmeric powder- 1/4 th tsp
salt - to taste




Wash and cook raw rice . Once the pressure goes off spread it on a wide plate and let it cool.
Dry roast sesame seeds and grind it into fine powder. Set aside.
wash the tamarind leaves once dry them on kitchen towel.Crush it between your palms and keep aside.


Heat a wok , once hot add oil ,mustard seeds and once the mustard seeds splutter , add urad dal and channa dal, once they turn golden brown add raw peanuts, hing, methi pwd and turmeric pwd. Once the peanuts crackle add the crushed tamarind leaves , and once it wilts add roasted sesame seed powder. Finally add cooked rice and salt. Mix well and serve it hot with potato wafers or mosru bajji.




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