AKKI USULI- Karnataka dish

This dish is extremely delicious if you like the tangy tamarind taste.
Its just simple , the way you make upma.this is made with tamarind and jaggery water.


Ingredients:-

• RICE- 1 cup
• Tamarind pulp-thick pulp 1/4 cup
• water-3 cups
  
• Jaggery- 2 small cubes
• urad dhal- 1 tspn
• Bengal gram dhaal- 1 tspn
• Green chillies- 8-10
• Mustard seeds- 1 tspn
• Turmeric- 1/4 tspn
• Cumin seeds-1 tspn
• Chopped Coriander leaves
• grated coconut-1 tspn (optional)
• salt- to taste.

Method:-

• Fry rice in a pan and keep it aside.it will become little bigger in size.
• Take a separate pan. Add oil, mustard seeds,jeera. Add urad dhal, bengal gram dal.
• Add green chillies. when it fries. Add tamarind pulp,water(3 cups only for 1 cup rice)and jaggery and add salt.
• when it is boiling . add the fried rice and stir it slowly and place a lid on top of it .
• keep stirring in between.
• let it boil in medium flame. it will take atleast 20-30 mins to cook rice.
• Finally add coriander leaves and grated coconut.
• Enjoy this rice.