Sambar and Rice

 

 

Ingredients

1. 2 cups of tuar / arhaar daal soaked in water for 30 minutes.

2. Salt to taste

3. Different vegetables 3 cups ( carrots,beans, brinjal, kadu, petha, tori, plantain (hara kela), potato, okra /bhindi)

4. 1 Onion chopped

5. 1 big red tomato chopped

6. Salt to taste

7. 4 tbsp of sambar masala (any brand)

8. 1 ½ of amchoor / mango powder

9. 1 cup of kadi pata

10. 2 cups of plain white boiled Rice ( while boiling rice add 2 tsp of lemon juice)

11. 1 tbsp of sarso seeds

12. 2 whole lal mirch / red chili

13. Water

14. Oil

Directions

1. If you don’t have sambar masala you can make your own by roasting some dry spices. Take ½ cup coriander seeds, ¼ cup cumin seeds, ¼ cup chana daal (large split yellow lentils), ¼ cup urad daal (black gram), ¼ cup fenugreek seeds, ¼ cup black peppercorns, ¼ cup dry red chilli flakes, ¼ cup grated dessicated coconut, ¼ cup mustard seeds, 20 dried curry leaves, 2 tbsp tumeric powder, 2 tsp asafetida powder. Roast all the ingredients except the asafetida on a hot griddle till they begin to release their aroma. Cool on a tray. Add the asafetida and grind into a fine powder. Store in an air-tight container.

2. Boil the daal in pressure cooker or pan till it is turned into soup with pinch of salt and turmeric powder and ½ tsp of oil.

3. In the mean time boil water with 1 tsp of salt and add your vegetables to it. Boil them until they are cooked.

4. Till the vegetables are cooking make tadka for sambar. Add oil in non stick tadka pan add sarso seeds, when they splutter add kadi pata, whole lal mirch. Cook for 1 minute and add onions. When the onions turn golden brown add tomato and sambar masala, salt and amchoor powder.

5. Now add vegetables and tadka to the daal . Cook for 10 minutes.

6. Serve hot with white rice with onion rings dipped in lemon.

-enjoy Chitra