Maha's Recipes

Pulihora - Tamarind Rice

maha — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:58:04 +0000

Pulihora or Pulihara which ever way it is spelled, is right.
Also known as Puliyodhara(puliyodharai), Puliyogare or Chitrannam, is a very common rice dish in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka States. I am sure everyone knows about this rice dish, so lets get to the preparation. If you have no idea what it is, the picture shows everything.

Ingredients:

500 gm rice
1 tbsp roasted peanuts
5-6 roasted cashew nuts
a pinch of asafoetida
a pinch of fenugreek powder

Ingredients for tamarind paste:

500 gm tamarind
2-3 red chillies
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
salt to taste

Ingredients for Tempering:

2 tsp oil
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp urad dal
1/2 tsp bengal gram
5-6 curry leaves
2-3 curd chillies (optional)
2 green chillies

Method:

Wash and soak rice for 15-20 min and cook the rice.
Prepare tamarind juice by soaking the tamarind in 2 cups of water.
Boil the tamarind juice along with the turmeric powder, red chillies and salt till the consistency becomes a thick paste.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds, urad dal, bengal gram, curry leaves, curd chillies & 2 green chillies.
Add the above seasoning, roasted cashew nuts, roasted peanuts, asafoetida and fenugreek powder to the cooked rice and mix well.
Server with potato wafers for extra taste.

The Tamarind paste in the above procedure can be stored for days together and used as a ready-mix later. So, don’t mind if you think you have more paste than you actually need. If you can, add curd chillies (marked as optional in the ingredients) for extra taste. ????????

rice, tamarind

Palu Payasam - Traditional Rice Payasam

maha — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:42:02 +0000

The Rice Payasam, this amazingly tasting sweet is a Traditional Recipe of South India made for all auspicious occasions and festivals. Its easy to prepare but all you need is a little bit of patience in its making process.

Ingredients:

1 lt milk
1 heaped cup of sugar
1 tbsp Ghee
a pinch of Cardamom powder
6-7 Cashew Nuts (chopped)
1/2 cup raw rice

Method:

Clean the raw rice and soak it for 15 min.
Add 1/2 water and the soaked rice to milk and boil it in low flame till the quantity reduce to half.
Add sugar and cardamom powder to the boiling milk and cook for another 5 minutes while stirring continuously.
Remove the boiling milk from flame.
Fry the cashew nuts in ghee and add them along with the ghee as is.
Serve HOOOT!

According to your taste you can vary the amount of sugar.

For Rice Flakes Payasam, use the same method. The only change is, use rice flakes instead of raw rice.

paravannam, payasam, sweet

Ugadi Pachadi - Telugu New Year Special

maha — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:10:50 +0000

Ugadi, The New Year for Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka. Also celebrated as Gudi Padwa in Maharastra on the same day.

This auspicious day begins with prayers and eating of the traditional tamarind sauce called as “Ugadi Pachadi” in Andhra Pradesh and “Bevu-Bella” in Karnataka.

Ugadi Pachadi resembles the mixture of feelings in Life:

Neem Buds/Flowers for Bitterness
Jaggery for Sweetness
Raw Mango for Vagaru
Tamarind Juice for sour
Salt for Salt
Chillies for Hotness

The Making of Ugadi Pachadi:

Ingredients:

1 cup of tamarind juice
1/2 tbsp of Jaggery
1/2 cup Raw Mango (cut into fine pieces along with skin)
1 small green chillies
2 tsp Neem Flower (Vepa Puvvu)
1/4 tsp salt

Method:
Mix all the above ingredients to make the Ugadi Pachadi.

Note: To prepare 1 cup tamarind juice, soak small lemon sized tamarind to 1 cup of water for 15-20 mins. The blend manually and filter.

pachadi, ugadi

Hello and Welcome

maha — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:13:00 +0000

Hello and Welcome to Maha’s Recipes, my cookbook for the future.
This is my recipes site/blog where I will pen down all the Recipes that I work on day to day. Most of the recipes that I will be writing down here will be traditional Indian Recipes. I will be covering Recipes from North India, Andhra & Tamil Nadu and some International Recipes that I find Interesting.

I am launching this site on the auspicious day of Ugadi(Telugu New Year).
Ugadi is said to be a new start for everything. Lets hope the magic of Ugadi works on my recipes site too.

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Happy Cooking.

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