Sambar Sadam

I am posting a quick and easy way to make sambar sadam.Rice and sambar are prepared seperately and mixed together in this recipe. 

Ingredients:

Raw rice	½ cup
Toor dhal	½ cup
Tamarind	Small lime sized
Vegetables chopped into big cubes	1 ½  cups
Tomato	1
Small onion	10-15
Sambar powder	2 tsp
Salt	as needed
Mustard seeds	1 tsp
Red chilli	1
Methi seeds	½ tsp
Asafoetida	¼ tsp
Curry leaves	as needed
Oil	1 tblsp

Method:

• Pressure cook rice and toor dhal seperately and keep aside.
• Extract 2 cups of tamarind juice .
• Chop the vegetables into big cubes. I have used white pumpkin,carrot,capsicum and drumstick.If using drumstick,cut them into small sticks and cook them with water in a pan seperately and keep ready.
• Heat a pan,add oil followed by mustard seeds,red chilli,methi seeds,asafoetida and curry leaves. Add the small onions and cook till they turn light brown.
• Now add the tomato and other vegetables and saute till they shrink in volume.
• Add the tamarind juice,sambar powder and salt and boil till the raw smell of tamarind and sambar powder goes off.
• Mash the cooked toor dhal nicely with a ladle and add to the sambar.You can adjust the consistency by adding little water.
• Boil for few minutes till the dhal blends nicely with the sambar.Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.sambar is ready.
• To make sambar rice,mix the cooked rice little by little to the prepared sambar.Add rice till you get perfect consistency.Drizzle little ghee on top and serve with Chips or papad.

Vegetable Noodles

Vegetable noodles is a quick and easy dish in which plain noodles is cooked first and then tossed with stir fried vegetables and spices.

Ingredients:

Noodles	1 packet
Vegetables(carrot,cabbage and capsicum) thinly sliced	2 cups
Onion	1
Garlic	2 cloves
Soya sauce	1 tsp
Pepper powder	1/2 tsp
Salt	as needed
Olive oil	1 tblsp
Oil	2 tsp

Method:

• Chop the onion and garlic finely.
• Cook the noodles according to the instruction given in the pack and rinse them in cold water.Coat them nicely with olive oil,cover and keep aside.
• Heat a pan,add oil followed by garlic and onion and fry till onion turns translucent.
• Now add the sliced carrot,pinch of sugar and fry in high flame for 2 mins.Add cabage and fry for a minute. Finally add the capsicum and cook till the vegetables are fried but still crunchy.
• Add the soya sauce,pepper powder and salt and mix well.
• Add the cooked noodles and fry till the vegetables and sauce blend well with the noodles.

Note:

• If you want more spicy,add finely chopped green chilli while adding garlic or add some Green chilli sauce while adding soya sauce.
• You can make it with sphagetti too instead of noodles.
• I have used Ching's Hakka noodles(Plain) in this recipe.