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.