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Kanu Festival Tamarind & Coconut Pullao

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Preparation info
  • Servings:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 5

Appears in
Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey

By Najmieh Batmanglij

Published 2000

  • About

This sweet and sour rice is offered for thanksgiving at the Kanu Festival in January. On the fourth day, called Kanu Pongal, women prepare small balls of this rice from the new harvest, color them in different hues, place them on a plantain leaf and offer them along with sugarcane to Surya, the Hindu sun god, in gratitude.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups long-grain white basmati rice
  • 4 tablespoons peanut oil
  • ½

Method

  1. Cook the rice per the Gilani Smothered Rice recipe.
  2. In a wok or medium-sized nonstick pot, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat, add the cashews and raisins, and stir-fry for 20 seconds. Remove the nuts and raisins with a slotted

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