Sambar Sadham

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup
Toor dal - 3/4 to 1 cup
Drumstick-5 pieces(2 inches each)
Carrot-1(cut into small cubes)
Peas-1/4 cup
Small onions-15(pealed)
Tomato-1
Tamarind - a goosbery -sized ball
Green chillies - 2
Sambar powder - 1.5 to 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Corriondar leaves-3 tsp
Cashewnuts-5(Broke and Browned)

For seasoning:

Oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Urad dal-1 tsp
Asafoedita- 1/4tsp
Curry leaves - a few


Preparation:

1. pressure cook toor dal seperately for 1 whistle.Aafter the pressure got released drain the water

2. Add 1 cup warm water to the tamarind and extract juice.

3. Heat oil in the pressure cooker pan and add the seasoning items given.After poppig add the green chillies, turmeric and sambar powder and mix well.

4. Add onion,tomatoes and fry until onion turns brown. To this add the tamarind juice taken in 1 cup.

To cook the rice I use every day, the ratio of rice:water is 1:2. Since I have used 1.5 cups rice here, I need 3 cups water in total. Tamarind juice is in 1 cup water so I added approximately 2 more cups of water to the cooker. Its fine if its slightly more than that.

4. Cook for 3 whistles. If you like your sambar sadam a bit mushy, then cook for 4 whistles and make sure you add slightly more water than specified above.

5. Wait till pressure leaves and serve hot with vadaam / chips / appalam and raita / curd.