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    Sambar Rice Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 8, 2025 by Aarthi

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    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.

    Table of Contents

    • About Sambar Rice Recipe
    • 📖 Recipe Card
    • Sambar Rice Recipe | Sambar Sadam Recipe
    • Pressure Cooker Sambar Rice Recipe Step by Step Pictures
    • Version 2: Restaurant Style Sambar Rice 

    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

    Sambar Rice Recipe with step by step pictures. Spicy and comforting sambar sadam made with rice, toor dal, vegetables, sambar masala.
    3 from 4 votes
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    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 45 minutes minutes
    Servings: 4 servings

    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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    Pressure Cooker Sambar Rice Recipe Step by Step Pictures

    Take all your ingredients
    You will need all country veggies
    Take dal and rice and soak them
    Heat oil in a pressure cooker..Add in tempering items
    Add in onions and tomatoes
    Saute them for a while
    Add in spice powders
    Season with salt and sugar
    Mix them around
    Add in all the veggies
    Toss them around
    Saute them for a while, so that the raw smell leaves
    Cover with water
    Add tamarind
    And the rice and dal
    Bring it to a boil
    Cook till done..Drizzle in some ghee
    Serve

    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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    Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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    1. Tamilarasi Sasikumar

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      Looks yummy...

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    2. Inside a British Mum's Kitchen

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      I love one pot meals - especially ones as delicious as this - I can almost smell it cooking!!
      Mary x

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      • Sakthi

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        U

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        • Sakthi

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          Hi ka... Recipes look wonderful.... But one doubt.. Y r u adding sugar to most of the dishes..

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    3. Anonymous

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      Superb.thks a lot.u really helped me by giving such a easy recipe.i tried with brown rice.it was damn good

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    4. Anonymous

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      Wow
      Simply superb

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    5. Navya

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      Made it tonight for dinner. Thank you for the detailed instructions. Smells awesome

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    6. Sheela Hepzibah

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      Hello there.... Made this today... Came out perfect... It was an easy job.... Thanks... Cheers 🙂

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    7. Unknown

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      Hi...I made this today...it was yummy... Thanks

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    8. Anonymous

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      Thanks for the recipe... It came out super...

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    9. Anonymous

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      Hi can this be done inside rice cooker instead of pressure cooker?

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    10. Aarthi

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      @Anonymousyes u can make

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    11. Gummadilli sriram kumar

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      Plz tell me water quantity

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    12. Aarthi

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      @Gummadilli sriram kumarit is mention in the written recipe.

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