Nimmakaya Pulihora
Posted by coolgirlsblog on April 3, 2009
Nimmakaya pulihora is a great rice dish that is very easy to make. Personally I like this dish due to its taste and easiness.
Ingredients
Rice – 2 1/2 cups (Rice cooker)
Lime - 2
Green Chillies – 2
Ginger - 1/2 inch root
Groundnuts/Cashews – fistful
Chanal Dal – 2 tsps
Urad Dal – 2 tsps
Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
Curry Leaves – 1 Sprig
Jeera – 1 tsp
Chopped Cilantro – 1/4 cup
Turmeric - 3/4th tsp
Red chillies – 3
1. Cook rice by adding 5 cups of water
2. Add 2 tbsps of oil to a pan. After oils heats up, add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds start to splutter, add jeera, chana dal, urad dal, red chillies and peanuts. Fry everything until the dals turn to golden brown color. If you are using cashews instead of peanuts, add them now instead of earlier.
3. Chop greenchillies and ginger and add the same along with curry leaves to the pan.
4. Fry everything for a minute. Squeeze juice out of lemon. Turn down the heat to Low. Add lemon juice, turmeric and salt to the pan and mix everything well for few seconds. This mixture is called pulusu. Turn off the heat and let the pulusu cool down.
5. Take a wide container. Slowly add cooked rice to the same. Make sure the rice does not have any lumps and does not become mushy. Let the rice cool down for a minute while mixing it occassionally.
6. Now, add pulusu to rice in smaller quantities. Keep mixing everything gently along with cilantro.
7. Pulihora tastes more delicious, the next day.
