Puli Aval
Upma with flattened rice, tamarind, peanuts and spices
Ingredients
- 2 cup aval / poha / flattened rice thick variety
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp tamarind paste / gooseberry size tamarind
- Salt to taste
To temper
- 1 tbsp sesame oil / nallennai
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 2 red chilly broken
- ¼ tsp asafoetida / hing
- 1 tsp split urad dal
- 1 tsp channa dal / kadalai paruppu
- 2 tbsp roasted peanuts
- 2 green chillies finely chopped
- Few curry leaves
Instructions
- Dissolve the tamarind in ½ cup water and add turmeric powder. Wash the poha just once and soak poha in the tamarind extract for 5-10 minutes.
- Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add chana dal and peanuts. When chana dal starts to turn golden, add urad dal, red chillies and asafoetida.
- When dals are golden, add green chillies, curry leaves and fry for few seconds. Then add poha, salt. Mix well gently and cook for 4-5 minutes.
Notes
- Use only thick variety poha. Also wash the poha just once and don't soak for long else the poha will become mushy.
- You can also add ¼ tsp sambar powder while soaking the poha.
- You can use any oil but I recommend sesame oil as it gives a nice flavor.