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Pulihora or Lemon Rice is a South Indian rice dish.

Ingredients

• Rice
• Oil
• Red chillies
• Bengal gram
• Black gram
• Mustard seed
• Groundnuts
• Curry leaves
• Turmeric
• Tamarind or lemon juice
• Salt
• Jaggery

Procedure

• Cook the rice according to the instructions on the packet
• Heat the required quantity of oil to which add red chillies, Bengal gram, black gram, mustard seeds, groundnuts and don't forget curry leaves
• Add turmeric powder may be a little more will give you good color to the food
• After the added content is heated properly Add tamarind and/or lemon juice
• let the soup of tamrind boil till you get more viscous liquid
• Add salt to your taste.
• Also add little bit of jaggery.
• Once the paste is ready spread the rice in a wide plate or steel basin the cooked rice shall be cooled and separated to grain level now you can mix your viscous liquid and mix properly.
• Wait at least for an hour for the liquid to get absorbed by the rice and now check the salt if required add little.
• This can be served at the picnics and parties.
• The paste or viscous liquid can be stored for days together and used as a ready mix.