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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.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 45 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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