Burritos with Ginger/Tamarind Sauce: A Mexican Indian Delight

This is a recipe posted a little over two years ago in my blog at Alaivani! Enjoy a blast from the past!

Recipe: Burritos with Ginger/Tamarind Sauce: A Mexican Indian Delight

There are two steps to this fusion dish:

1. Prepare the ginger/tamarind sauce.

2. Prepare the burrito.

Ginger Tamarind Sauce (Pulinji)

Ingredients:

3 tbspn Finely minced fresh ginger

2 Finely chopped green chilis
1 cup water

Small ball Tamarind, small ball, a little bigger than a gooseberry
1 tbspn Chilli powder
1 tsp Mustard seeds
6-10 Curry leaves
5 Fenugreek seeds
3 tbspn grated jaggery (or brown sugar)

1-2 tspn salt to taste

5 peppercorns
3 tbspn Oil

rice powder (optional)

Method:

Step 1:
Soak tamarind in 1 cup warm water for 15 minutes and extract the juice. This should yield about a cup of thick tamarind extract. Filter it and keep aside.

Step 2:
Dry roast fenugreek seeds until the color changes. Powder it and keep aside.

Step 3:

Heat Oil in a pan.

Step 4:

When oil is hot, add the mustard seeds.

Step 5:

When mustard seeds pop, add the ginger, green chilies and curry leaves. Stir fry about 5 minutes.

Step 6:

Add the tamarind water, chili powder, fenugreek seeds-powdered, peppercorns, salt, jaggery. Boil about 15 minutes – 5 minutes on high, 10 minutes on low.

This will thicken as it cools. If you want to thicken it quicker, add a few pinches of rice powder. When you use this sauce, use it in small doses, it is quite full of taste (potent)!

Adapted from: http://myworksh0p.blogspot.com/2007/01/puliyinjitamarind-ginger-hot-sauce.html

Burrito-

1 16 oz can vegetarian refried beans - warmed

½ cup each diced veggies per your taste including

tomatoes, mushrooms, green/red/orange pepper, onion, lettuce, etc.

2-4 large tortillas

2 tspn sour cream

2 tspn guacamole (optional)

To make the burrito with pulinji (ginger/tamarind sauce).

Step 1:

Place the tortilla on the plate. Spread the refried beans in the center. Put on the veggies.

Roll up. Using sour cream while rolling up the ends of the bread acts like a glue.

Step 2:

After it’s rolled up, drizzle the pulinji sauce over the top of the burrito per taste.

Step 3:

If you use guacamole it could be on the side.

Enjoy!

Related Links:
See Nupur's Mexican Fiesta (a vegetarian version of Mole sauce included!)
Original Recipe- 8th post on Alaivani!

Thank you for reading and spending time on my blogs!

Lemon Rasam - Another Version!

In January 2008, I posted another version of lemon rasam. Here's another!


Ingredients:
1/2 tbspn cumin seeds
1 tbspn ghee or butter
10 curry leaves
1 large green chili slit lengthwise
4 cups water
5 fenugreek (methi) seeds
1/4 tsp ginger powder
1/4 tsp cumin powder
1/8 tsp coriander powder
1/4 tsp black or white pepper powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
5 peppercorns crushed in mortar
Salt to taste
2 tbspn chenna dhal
2 tsbpn lemon juice
30-40 coriander leaves


Method:

1. Heat ghee or butter in a saucepan. When it heats add the cumin seeds, green chili, and curry leaves. Heat on high for about 30 seconds seconds.
2. Add the water.
3. Add fenugreek seeds, ginger powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, pepper powder, turmeric powder, peppercorns. Let boil on high about 2 minutes. Turn heat to medium. Keep on medium heat about 10 minutes.
4. Turn heat down - between low and medium. Keep on this heat about 20 minutes, until dhal pieces become a little soft, but will not loose shape.
5. Add coriander leaves as garnish. Stir.
6. Add lemon juice just before serving.
7. Taste for and add salt per your taste.


Tip, to save time, you can have everything ready to go as you need it. This is a good tip especially for the spices. I like to keep all spices needed for step 3 in a small bowl, kept ready before I start cooking, so I can just pour it in when it's time to go!


Eat this with rice and a side curry or as a drink by straining out all the "pieces".


Enjoy! Serves about 3-4.


Related posts/sites:
Make your own rasam powder, by Lulu.
Tasty Tidbits: Rasam (Cultural Facts about this tasty broth!)