Microwave Puli Kali/ Upma (Tamarind Upma)

Author: kittymatti / Labels: ,

Puli Kali


Recipe and photo courtesy: Kamala, Mythili (my grandma and aunt)

Puli upma is an acquired taste. You are sure to love it if you love the flavour of tamarind. A quick satisfying tiffin.. This upma absorbs a lot of oil for the rice flour to get completely cooked. As my mom is very health conscious, my grandma came up with this microwave recipe




Ingredients:
1 lime size ball of tamarind
1 cup rice flour
1.5-2 cups water
2 tsp oil
Curry leaves 1 sprig
1 tsp mustard seeds
Channa dal 1/2 tsp
Urad dal 1/2 tsp
Green chillies 2
Salted black chilli (mormolagai)-4
Salt to taste
Hing 3 dashes


Soak tamarind pulp in sufficient water
Add oil in a kadai. Splutter mustard seeds
Add channa dal, urad dal, curry leaves and all the chillies and roast well.
In a microwave safe bowl, mix rice flour and tamarind juice such that it forms a thick batter.
Add the seasoning to this batter. Add salt and hing
Toss it into a microwave.
Microwave for 5-6 minutes stirring every one minute.
This yields a kali consistency
For upma consistency, stir and continue for a few more minutes till dry and powdery.
Serve with manga thokku.

Calorie count: 580 cal approx
Thank you Ammu for this lovely award..We are honoured. I share this award with all my blogger friends

22 comments:

Vibaas said...

my mom makes this and i love it :) thx for reminding me..haven't had it in a while. yum!

Rika said...

wow..upma in microwave!!! i guess authentic food treasures is turning into contemporary food treasures :)

Kalaivani said...

I love both puli and moore kali. Yummy dish.

Padma said...

Congrats on ur award Preethi :) ... tamarind upma/kali looks great... a very new recipe ...

Vrinda said...

Very unique upma prreti..i tried almost similar moru kali from Madhu's blog..will try ur microwave version soon...

kittymatti said...

thank u all so much
rads thtz really true! haha

Mangala Bhat said...

Wow! love this ..Thnaks for sharing

Deepthi Shankar said...

very new to me. looks like I am gonna like this

chef and her kitchen said...

microwave version looks nice...

Dhanya Ganesh said...

Wow..interesting recipe. I luv anything with tamarind:)

vidhas said...

simple and yummy kali!!

Priyameena said...

Never made upma with riceflour...Looks tasty..

lubnakarim06 said...

Completely new to me...looks yum...Congrats on the award...

Shama Nagarajan said...

Congrats dear...lovely recipe

Trupti said...

Congratulations on Award. Upama looks delicious & easy to make

Sweta (My Indian Dietitian) said...

A microwave upma-cool!! I've never tried rice flour uppma-this will be fun :)

Sowmya said...

Wow..Like Mor Kali I guess?..

Havent tried this one yet..Sounds interesting.

Congrats on ur award Kitty..

Nithya Praveen said...

Oh girl i felt nostalgic.Reminded me of my childhood when my dad used to make this...this is the only brkfst that he cud make.We make this without the Puli,shud try this.And yes microwave method sounds very interesting....its always better to cook this way as the normal method drinks up loadsa oil!thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

I have heard abt it, but never tried. looks gud.and its nice that u involve all ur family members in ur blog

kittymatti said...

thnx nithya, dad's signature recipe...sounds interesting!
Thnx shubha, so nice of u!

Unknown said...

This is my Dad's favorite, but never tried with microwave. I will pass on this recipe to my Mom, so that next time she can make it in microwave for my Dad.

Anonymous said...

I have not made upma with tamarind in it, only lemon. Looks nice, I expected it to be browner because of the tamarind. Will try this recipe soon. Please see pictures of upma on my blog, different from yours but still nice: http://mangosoup.blogspot.com/2009/08/semolina-upma.html

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