Sambhar Rice

This Sambhar Rice can be a very healthy meal for kids, who are picky. In this dish we can add any kind of vegetable except beetroot. If you can add green pepper or red pepper, it will definitely add a good taste to the dish. I have used carrot, peas, radish and potato. Let us see the method of preparation.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup - Rice 
1/2 cup - Toor dal
1 cup - chopped vegetables

 

Onion - 1 large chopped
Tomato - 2 large chopped
Curry leaves - few
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Hing (asafoetida) - 1/2 tsp

Ingredients to make a fine Sambhar powder:

Channa Dal - 4 tbsp
Urad Dal - 3 tbsp
Dhania (Coriander)Seeds - 2 tbsp
Red Chillies - 5 nos.
Jeera - 1 tbsp
Fenugreek seeds - 1 tbsp
Cloves - 3 nos.
Cinnamon Bark - 1 inch piece



Fry all these ingredients in 1 tsp oil, cool it down and grind into a fine powder.

Method of Rice preparation:

1. In a pressure cooker, or an electric rice cooker, add the washed rice and washed toor dal.

  2. Add the chopped vegetables too and also 3 1/2 cups water, and pressure cook them together.



3. In a pan, heat 2 tbsp of oil and add mustard seeds, curry leaves, hing and chopped onion and tomato.

4. Add this to the pressure cooked rice - dal - vegetable mix.

5. Now, its time to add the ground sambhar powder too. 

6. Add the tamarind water and mix well. 

7. Add the juice of 1 small lemon at last.

8. Garnish with coriander leaves.