Here goes the recipe.
Ingredients:
Ponni Pulungalarisi/ Ponni boiled rice - 1 cup
Tuvar dhal - 1/2 cup
Small onion - 2 cups - slit into 2 each
Green chillies - 4 - slit into 2
Curry leaves - few
Tomatoes - 2 - chop fine
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt
To grind:
Garlic - 10 - 12 flakes
Cinnamon - 1"
Cloves - 2
Sombhu - 1 tsp
Jeera - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - few
To temper:
Oil - 3 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Gram dhal - 1/2 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/2 tsp
Method:
1. Wash and soak rice and dhal together for 15 min.
2. In a pressure cooker, heat oil and temper with the given ingredients.
3. Add onions, green chillies and curry leaves and fry till onion is well cooked.
4. Add tomatoes and fry till mashy.
5. Add turmeric powder, salt and required water and rice, salt.
6. Close the cooker and keep weight.
7. Pressure cook for 2 whistles.
8. Cool, Open and then serve with Brinjal Potato Poriyal. A perfect combo of both.
Variation:
1). If you want to omit spices ( cinnamon, cloves and sombhu), then while grinding add pepper ( 1 tsp) and add them. This gives rice a different taste.
2). Instead of tuvar dhal, you can also add green gram dhal and thatta payiru ( red choli beans/ cow beans).
If using cow beans either pressure cook it 4 whistles instantly and add or soak it overnight.
3). You can also omit tomatoes and cook.
