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Sambar Sadham (Rice cooked with Lentils and Vegetables)

When you want to finish vegetables lying in your fridge, you can make the popular South Indian Sambar Sadham. It is a nice medley of rice, lentils and vegetables. It is definitely nutritious and an easy way to incorporate vegetables into your meal.  In Tamil Nadu, the dish is known as Sambar Sadham whereas in Karnataka, another similar dish (or even the same) is known as Bise Bele Bath. Sambar Sadham can be prepared easily and the best thing is that you can serve it with a few accompaniments like Pappad and pickle. You don’t have to worry about preparing Plain Rice and numerous curries, which is definitely a time saver. 🙂

Sambar Sadham

Sambar Sadham (Sambar Rice)

The ingredients used in this recipe are more or less similar to the recipe for my Kerala Sambar. There are many ways to cook Sambar Sadham. You can either pressure cook rice, lentils and vegetables together with all the powders and seasonings. Or, you can can add seasonings after pressure cooking rice, vegetables and lentils.  Another method is to cook the vegetables separately, while pressure cooking rice and lentils together, and then combine everything. And some people cook rice, dal and vegetables separately and finally combine everything together along with all the seasonings.  I used the first method which is the easiest but if you don’t want your vegetables to be mushy, then probably you can cook those separately.

Sambar Sadam

Sambar Sadam (Rice with Lentils and Vegetables)

You can add any vegetables of your choice like carrots, green beans, potatoes, drum sticks, brinjal, ivy gourd, okra, tomatoes etc. Avoid using cabbage and other vegetables which become soggy.

Ingredients

  1. Rice – 2.5 cups (Any variety of White Rice. I used Basmathi Rice.)
  2. Diced Vegetables – 2.5 cups approx (I used 2 medium carrots, 1 small potato, 1 drumstick and 10 beans)
  3. Toor/Tuvar Dal (Tuvara Parippu) – 1 cup
  4. Slit Green Chillies – 4
  5. Diced Onions – 1 small (optional)
  6. Chopped Garlic – 1 clove
  7. Turmeric Powder – 1/2 tsp
  8. Tamarind Extract – Small Lemon sized ball (Alternatively, you can use 3 or 4 tbsp of Tamarind Paste.)
  9. Ghee /Oil – 2 tbsp
  10. Water – 7 or 8 cups

For Roasting

  1. Oil – 1 tbsp
  2. Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
  3. Dry Red Chillies – 4 or 5
  4. Finely Sliced Shallots – 4
  5. Curry leaves – A few
  6. Sambar powder – 3 tbsp
  7. Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp
  8. Red Chilly Powder – 1 tbsp
  9. Fenugreek Powder (Uluva) – 1/2 tsp
  10. Asafoetida (Kaayam/Hing) – 1/2 tsp

Preparation Method

  1. First, soak the Basmathi Rice and Toor Dal separately in water. Then chop all the required vegetables and keep aside.
  2. Soak the tamarind in half cup of warm water.
  3. Heat a non stick pan and splutter mustard seeds.
  4. Add shallots, dry red chillies and curry leaves. Saute until the shallots begin to brown.
  5. Reduce heat and add sambar powder, red chilly powder and coriander powder. Stir fry for 2 minutes until it becomes nice brown color.
  6. Switch off the stove and add asafoetida and fenugreek powder. Keep stirring for 2 more minutes.
  7. Heat a pressure cook and add 2 tbsp of oil/ghee.
  8. Add the onions and green chillies and saute for a minute.
  9. Throw in the diced vegetables and garlic along with turmeric powder. Saute for a few more minutes.
  10. Wash and drain the rice and toor dal. Add it to the pan followed by 7 cups of water. (You need at least 5 cups of water to cook 2.5 cups of rice and 2 cups of water to cook 1 cup of Dal. That makes it 7 cups. If you want the Sadham to be a little loose in consistency, then add 1 more cup of water which makes it  8 cups.)
  11. Next, extract the juice from the tamarind and add it to the cooker.
  12. Add all the roasted seasonings to the cooker. Mix well and add salt to taste.
  13. Cover and pressure cook for upto 3 to 4 whistles.
  14. Serve with pappad, pickle and curd.
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