Blogging Marathon# 36: Week 4/ Day 1
Theme: Online Bookmarked Recipes
Dish: Cranberry Pulihora
For the final week of blogging marathon, I chose to do ‘Online Bookmarked Recipes’. I thought this will be a great way to try and make some of the dishes from my ever-growing bookmarked recipes. It was quite a task to decide on the 3 dishes for this week. Finally based on the ingredients in the fridge and pantry I made 3 delicious dishes.
First up is this colorful Cranberry Pulihora that I bookmarked from Usha’s blog. Using cranberries to give the required tartness/ sourness to pulihora sounded absolutely delicious and I wanted to try it right away.
Usha boiled the cranberries to make a gojju/ paste, but mentioned that they can be sauteed as well. Being the lazy bum that I am, I took the easy way and cooked the cranberries along with the other tempering and the cranberries cooked to perfection in just about 5~7 minutes. So this is a dish that can be made in less than 30 minutes and does not need any prior preparations.
This pulihora is definitely a keeper and I’m sure I’ll be making it many more times during the cranberry season. I added a little lemon juice to jazz up the flavor, but this is purely optional and up to your taste.
- 1 cup Rice
- 1 cup Cranberries - halved
- 2 tbsp Peanuts
- 2 tsp Chana Dal
- 2 tsp Urad dal
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 2 ~ 3 chilies Dry Red - broken
- ¼ tsp Asafoetida / Hing
- 1 Ginger " - piece
- 3 chilies Green - slit
- 8 ~ 10 Curry Leaves
- ¼ tsp Fenugreek Ground (Menthi pindi)
- ¼ tsp Turmeric
- to taste Salt
- Cook rice, make sure that the grains are separate and not mushy. Remove the rice into a large mixing bowl and set aside to cool.
- Heat 2tbsp oil in a saute pan; add chana dal, urad dal and peanuts. Once the dals start to turn golden, add mustard seeds and once the seeds start to splutter, add dry red chili and asafoetida.
- Next add green chilies, ginger and curry leaves. Fry for 1 minute.
- Next add the chopped cranberries, turmeric and ground fenugreek. Cook covered until cranberries are cooked and turn almost mushy.
- Add the cranberry mixture and salt to the cooled rice. Gently mix to combine, make sure not to break the rice.
Omg god can imagine how yummy it would taste 🙂 such yummy puliohara with cranberry , fabulous recipe !!
oh that is so interesting!!! should try this!!
Such beautiful bowl of rice pavani, I loved the idea when Usha had made it..you are now tempting us..very lovely!
I remember her post as well! I am tempted to try this..
cranberry pulihora looks colorful and tasty 🙂
super replacement to tamarind.yummy
Looks so pretty. Love that bowl. Beautiful pictures
Wow pulihora with cranberries! sure sounds interesting. The recipe sounds so tasteful..
Lovely color and must have tasted great!
Cranberry pulihora sounds so inviting and delicious,looks colorful..
I remember seeing it at Usha’s blog and thinking how unique it was – yours looks just as good
I remember seeing it at Usha’s blog and thinking how unique it was – yours looks just as good
Love the colors of the pulihora! It looks more inviting without the turmeric in it.. 🙂 Thanks for trying the recipe, Pavani.