Sambar Rice Recipe with step by step pictures. Spicy and comforting sambar sadam made with rice, toor dal, vegetables, sambar masala.
Sambar Rice Recipe
One pot meal are always a life saver. Because you don't have to baby sit near the stove in cooking rice separately, masala for the rice separately, layering them and cooking them together. Just throw everything in a pressure cooker or a pot and they will take care of themselves.
About Sambar Rice Recipe
Specially this sambar sadam is my absolute favourite, because it is loaded with lots of veggies, cooked till they are mushy and they just melt in your mouth. You don't need heavy accompaniment with this too. Just serve it with fried papad and pickle and you are in business. I hope you will try this out and let me know what you think.
How to Make Sambar Rice Recipe
Prepare Ingredients
Wash rice and dal well in lots of water. Wash and chop vegetables.
Seasoning for Sambar Rice
Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add in the tempering ingredients and saute for a min. Now add in onions, tomatoes and toss well. Cook them for 5 mins. Add in salt, sugar and all the spice powders and saute them for a min. Now add in all the veggies and toss well with the masala. Cook them for 5 to 10 mins till the raw smell leaves from them.
Cooking Sambar Rice
Pour in water. Add in dal, rice and tamarind extract. Bring this to a boil and cover the pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 5 whistle and simmer for 15 mins. Now switch off the flame and let them steam escape all by itself.
Serving Sambar Rice
Drizzle in some ghee and mix well. Serve with papad and pickle.
Sambar Rice gets its taste from the special sambar powder.
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Black pepper - 1 tsp
- Coriander seeds- 2 tbsp
- Dry Red Chilli 8
- Dessicated Coconut - ½ cup
- Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
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Sambar Rice Recipe | Sambar Sadam Recipe
Ingredients
- Rice - 1 ½ cup
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - 1 cup
- Onion - 1 chopped
- Tomato - 2 chopped
- Carrot - 1 chopped
- Raw Banana / Raw Plantain / Vazhakai- 1 peeled and chopped
- Brinjal - 1 chopped
- Ladysfinger / Okra - 4 chopped
- Elephant Yam / Chenai Kilangu- ½ cup chopped
- Potato - 1 peeled and chopped
- Snake Gourd / Pudalangai - ½ cup chopped
- Pumpkin / Poosanikai - ½ cup chopped
- Tamarind Pulp - 4 tblspn Click here for recipe
- Salt to taste
- Sugar - 1 tblspn
- Water - 7 ½ cup
- Ghee - 1 tblspn to drizzle in the last
For Tempering:
- Oil - ¼ cup
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Fenugreek Seeds / Methi / Vendayam - 1 tsp
- Dry Red Chilli - 3
- Curry leaves - a handful
Spice Powders:
- Chilli Powder - 1 tblspn or to taste
- Sambar Powder - 3 tblspn Store Bought
- Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi - 2 tblspn
Instructions
- Wash rice and dal well in lots of water.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add in the tempering ingredients and saute for a min.
- Now add in onions, tomatoes and toss well. Cook them for 5 mins.
- Add in salt, sugar and all the spice powders and saute them for a min.
- Now add in all the veggies and toss well with the masala.
- Cook them for 5 to 10 mins till the raw smell leaves from them.
- Pour in water. Add in dal, rice and tamarind extract.
- Bring this to a boil and cover the pressure cooker.
- Pressure cook for 5 whistle and simmer for 15 mins. Now switch off the flame and let them steam escape all by itself.
- Drizzle in some ghee and mix well.
- Serve with papad and pickle.
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Version 2: Restaurant Style Sambar Rice
This version of sambar rice is restaurant style in which rice and dal is cooked separately and special sambar powder is added for taste.
Ingredients for Sambar Rice
- Rice - 1
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - ½ cup
- Small Onion (shallots) - 10
- Tomato - 2 chopped
- Carrot - 1 chopped
- Raw Banana / Raw Plantain / Vazhakai- 1 peeled and chopped
- Brinjal - 1 chopped
- Ladysfinger / Okra - 4 chopped
- Potato - 1 peeled and chopped
- Turmeric powder 1 tsp
- Tamarind Pulp 3 tbsp
- Water - 41/2 cup
- Ghee - 1 tblspn to drizzle in the last
For Tempering
- Oil - ¼ cup
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Fenugreek Seeds / Methi / Vendayam - 1 tsp
- Dry Red Chilli - 3
- Curry leaves - a handful
To Roast & Powder:
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Black pepper - 1 tsp
- Coriander seeds- 2 tbsp
- Dry Red Chilli 8
- Desiccated Coconut - ½ cup
- Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
How to Make Sambar Rice
- Wash rice and dal well in lots of water. Take it in a pressure cooker. Add water and cook for 3 whistle. Set aside.
- Heat a pan. add in the roasting ingredients one by one and toast till golden. Remove to a blender and powder it.
- Heat oil in a big kadai or any pot. Add seasoning ingredients. Now add in onions, tomatoes and toss well. Cook them for 5 mins. Add in turmeric powder and mix well. Season with salt, saute them for a min.
- Now add in all the veggies and toss well with the masala. Cook them for 5 to 10 mins till the raw smell leaves from them. Pour in water. tamarind extract. Cook till veggies are cooked.
- Add in the powdered sambar masala. mix well. Add in cooked rice and dal. Mix well.
- Drizzle in some ghee and mix well. Serve with papad and pickle.
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Tamilarasi Sasikumar
Looks yummy...
Inside a British Mum's Kitchen
I love one pot meals - especially ones as delicious as this - I can almost smell it cooking!!
Mary x
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Sakthi
Hi ka... Recipes look wonderful.... But one doubt.. Y r u adding sugar to most of the dishes..
Anonymous
Superb.thks a lot.u really helped me by giving such a easy recipe.i tried with brown rice.it was damn good
Anonymous
Wow
Simply superb
Navya
Made it tonight for dinner. Thank you for the detailed instructions. Smells awesome
Sheela Hepzibah
Hello there.... Made this today... Came out perfect... It was an easy job.... Thanks... Cheers 🙂
Unknown
Hi...I made this today...it was yummy... Thanks
Anonymous
Thanks for the recipe... It came out super...
Anonymous
Hi can this be done inside rice cooker instead of pressure cooker?
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can make
Gummadilli sriram kumar
Plz tell me water quantity
Aarthi
@Gummadilli sriram kumarit is mention in the written recipe.