My MIL is the queen of easy cooking. You will never find her slogging for long hours in the kitchen but the delightful part is, everything comes out tasting great.
Puli aval is one such recipe that got made on a weeknight. If you want to cook up a fast meal after work, here’s what I suggest.
As soon as you get home, soak the aval (poha or flattened rice) in the tamarind extract and go take a shower, change, and relax/read for a bit. After 30 mins, proceed with the rest of the recipe which takes less than 15 mins.
If you like Indian recipes with aval or poha, then check out how to make vadai with aval, a quick snack with aval, and potato poha with onions.
Puli Aval (Poha or Flattened Aval Cooked in Tamarind)
Serves 2
Preparation time: 35 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Ingredients:
2 cups of aval / poha / flattened rice
1 tsp of tamarind paste or 1/2 cup tamarind extract
2 tbsp of sesame / gingelly oil
1 tbsp of channa dal / kadala paruppu
A generous pinch of hing / asafoetida
A few curry leaves
2-4 of dry red chillies, halved
1/2 tsp of pepper powder (optional)
Salt to taste
Instructions:
1. Rinse the aval once in cold water and mix well with the tamarind paste (diluted in 1/2 cup water) or the tamarind extract for 30 mins.
2. Heat oil and add the dal, hing, curry leaves, and chillies. Fry for 10 seconds and add the soaked aval. Add salt and pepper, mix until heated through, and remove from fire.
Serve hot with chips or appalam and curd.
Notes:
1. This tastes very similar to tamarind rice so I would love to try it with chuttaracha chammanthi which is Amma’s standard combination with puliogare.
2. Next time I make it, I will add some roasted peanuts, one minced onion, and probably some grated vegetables (like carrots) to make it a bit more nutritious and enhance the flavour a bit.
This reminded me of the Puli Ingi 🙂
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My Grandmom used to make this as a evening snack.
wow it is very quick n easy recipe….looks yummy and tasty ……bookmarked it i will try it soon………
That's a nice quick one, similar to gojja avalakki, but with a little twist adding tamarind to poha!, should try this way too.., lovely click, do visit me when you have time…
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That looks so awesome and yummy…
Wow nice dish easy and tasty dish.Love it.
I never tasted poha cooked in tamarind. Looks awesome and easy to prepare.
Superb, looks easy to make too..
looks yummy and very simple to make ………
mmm…. this looks amazing dear and so simple too. Never ever tried making this…
Looks yummy. Love the idea of not slogging
very recently i learnt this recipe. Love this version. Love this easy recipes.
I am with you on quick recipes! I am so much happier with the quick and tasty ones 🙂
Will make this for breakfast this week.
This recipe feels very similar to Mom's recipe of Huli-Avalakki. Just that we dont mix the tamarind juice with poha right away, the method is similar to Tamaring Huliogare.
This reminds me, I must try this one of these days. 🙂
Havent tasted this but sure looks like a easy and quick fix…Very tempting click.
I love this a lot, i make very often 🙂 All same! yummy …