Below recipe by Niru Gupta

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups rice (cooked 'bite-like')

• 1/2 cup tamarind (made into pulp)

• 3 Whole red chillies

• 1/4 cup curry leaves

• A pinch of asafoetida

• 1 tsp mustard seeds

• 1 tbsp chana dal

• 1 tsp urad dal (dhuli)

• 1/4 tsp methi seeds

• 1/2 tsp red chillli powder

• 1 tbsp peanuts

• 1 tsp salt

• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder

• 1/4 tsp gur

• Oil

Instructions:

• Heat oil and roast peanuts along with both the dals.

• Saute till the dals splutter and slightly coloured.

• Now add curry leaves and whole red chillies.

• Mix them well

• Add salt, hing, red chilli powder and turmeric powder. Saute them well.

• Add gur to the cooked mix and saute well. Now add the tamarind pulp to the mix and saute till it becomes a semi thick gravy.

• Add cooked rice to the mix.

• Saute it well so the rice is completely mixed with the cooked gravy.

• Serve hot, garnished with a tamarind.