Gongura Pulihora

INGREDIENTS:

Rice :2 cups

Popu/Tadka :

Green chilles :4 cut length wise
Mustard seeds : 1tsp
Zeera :1/2 tsp
Urad dal :1 tbsp
Channa dal : 1 tbsp
Curry leaves : 2 strings
Red chillies : 2
Turmaric : 1/2 tsp
Lemon : 1/2 lemon juice
Hing : 1/4 tsp
Salt : as required
Oil : 3 tbsp


Masala items:

Gongura leaves :3 handfulls
Red chilles :5
Mustard seeds :1/4 tsp
Zeera :1/2 tsp
Methi seeds :1/4 tsp
Oil : 2 tbsp


Preparation :

Fry above masala items in Oil.
Grind the above fried items together and add little salt and water while grinding . Make it like wet masala .
Wash and soak rice for 10 min . Drain water and add 4 cups of water . Cook in rice cooker .
Remove rice from the rice cooker and allow it to cool by spreading in a big bowl . Separate the cooked rice grains.
Heat the remaining oil in a cooking vessel, add the mustard seeds and let them splutter.
Add dry red chillis, zeera, channa dal, urad dal and fry for a minute till light brown.
Add the slit green chillis, asafoetida and few curry leaves,turmaric and fry for a few seconds.
Add this popu/tadka along with masala paste to the cooled rice and combine well such that its spread all over the rice. Adjust salt.Add lemon juice .


Serve with pappula podi and onions.