Gongura Pulihora Recipe | How to make Gongura Pulihora | (Gongura Rice)

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Gongura Pachadi
Gongura Pappu
Gongura Pulusu

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Gongura Pulihora Recipe | How to make Gongura Pulihora | (gongura rice)
Author: Sailaja Angara
Preparation Time: 10M
Cooking time: 20M
Servings: 6 People

Gongura Pulihora, best one pot meal for lunch boxes.

Ingredients:

• 1 and 1/2 Cup Rice
• 3 Cups Water
• 2 Cups Gongura Leaves or Roselle
• 2 Green Chillis
• Salt to Taste
• 1 Tbsp Peanuts
• 4 Tbsp Oil
• 1 Tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1 Tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1 Tsp Cumin Seeds
• 1 Tsp Chana Dal
• 1 Tsp Urad Dal
• 2 to 3 Red Chillis
• 1 Tsp Asafoetida
• 5 to 7 Curry Leaves

Ingredients for Masala Powder:
• 2 Tsp Oil
• 1/4 Tsp Fenugreek Seeds
• 1/4 Tsp Cumin Seeds
• 1 Tsp Chana Dal
• 1 Tsp Urad Dal
• 1 Tsp Coriander Seeds
• 2 to 3 Red Chillis
• 1 Tsp Black Pepper Seeds

Procedure:

1. Discard gongura leaves from the stems and wash them thoroughly.
2. Dry them for over night.
3. Slit green chillis.
4. Wash and cook rice with 1:2 ratio water.
5. Cook this for 2 or 3 whistles.
6. Once the cooker cooled spread the rice on to a wide plate.
7. Heat oil in a kadai.
8. Roast all the ingredients given under "ingredients for masala powder".
9. First saute chana dal, urad dal.
10. When they start turning color, add cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds and black pepper seeds.
11. Lastly add red chillis.
12. Allow them to cool completely.
13. Grind them to make coarse powder.
14. Add this masala powder to the above spread rice.
15. Mix it well.
16. Again heat oil in a kadai, add the gongura leaves.
17. Saute them till they become mushy.
18. Allow this also cool.
19. If you are adding tamarind, add it also and grind.
20. Grind it to make smooth paste. Keep it aside.
21. Again heat oil in another kadai.
22. Add peanuts. Saute them till it turns golden color.
23. Add chana dal, and urad dal.
24. Once they start turning brown.
25. Add cumin seeds and mustard seeds.
26. When they start splutter add slit green chillis.
27. Add red chillis, curry leaves. Allow them to pop up.
28. Add turmeric powder, salt.
29. Add grounded gongura.
30. Mix it well and allow the gongura to dry up completely.
31. Add the above tadka to the rice.
32. Mix the rice well.
33. Serve gongura pulihora or gongura rice with curd.