Pulikaichal is a ready to use mix to prepare the traditional Pulisadam/Puliyodarai/Imli Chawal/Tamarind Rice in south India. If it is prepared properly it can be even kept for a month. Tamarind is known as Puli in Tamil and as Imli in Hindi. As tamarind is the star ingredient, it is called as Puli-kaichal.
This pulikaichal can also be lightly applied as a spread in bread, chappati. I love to have pulikaichal as side dish for curd rice.
Ingredients
- Tamarind – small orange size
- Red chilli – 10 no
- Fenugreek seed – 1 table spoon
- Turmeric powder – 1 tea spoon
- Powdered jaggery – 1 tea spoon
- Roasted and powdered black sesame powder – 1 tea spoon
- Asafoetida – peanut size chopped
- Salt – as per taste
- For seasoning
- Peanut skinned – ½ cup
- Bengal gram – 2 table spoon
- Urad dal – 2 table spoon
- Mustard – 1 table spoon
- Red chilli – 10 no
- Curry leaves – few
- Sesame oil – ½ cup
Method
- Soak tamarind in water and extract juice; dry roast red chilli, asafetida, fenugreek and powder it coarsely.
- In a pan add oil and do the seasoning; let peanut and other grams get crisp; add turmeric powder, tamarind juice, salt and boil it for five minutes approximately in moderate flame to remove raw smell of tamarind.
- Add ground spices and keep cooking till the gravy gets thick; you can see the oil separating and floating on the surface.
- Add sesame powder, jaggery powder and boil for few minutes; remove and cool it.
- Store in a air tight container.
Tips
- Sesame powder gives nice flavor to pulikaichal and jaggery helps to balance the hot and sour taste.
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kamala,
I was looks for it. Thanks for sharing it. Nice one
I do the similar too..my fav..
wow looks great, never made this at home, thanks for the recipe…
My all time favourite. This is what I exactly do
Today I tried this. The smells so great. It come out really good.
Thank you so much for posting such a wonderful recipe. I was first skeptical about adding 1tbsp fenugreek seeds but it gives nice flavors and act as a thickening agent.