This is a very simple and delicious south Indian dish। One can also make it with leftover rice. Serve lemon rice with sambar and pappad.
Ingredients:
1. (raw rice) – 1cup
2. Red chilli ( big)- 4
3. Chana dal – 3 tsp
4. Urad dal – 1 ½ tsp
5. Green chillies – 2
6. Curry leaves – 2 strip
7. Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
8. Turmeric Powder – 1 tsp
9. Lime Juice – 1 1/2 ( medium)
10. Salt – 1tsp
Preparation Method :
1. Cook the rice with one spoon of salt. Keep it aside in a plate to cool.
2. Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, curry leaves and green chilies.
3. Add red chilli, chana dal and urad dal. Fry it and add turmeric powder, mix and turn of the fire.
4. Then add lime juice and mix it.
5. Add rice and mix। Now your lemon rice is ready serve with sambar and pappad.
Sambar
Ingredients:
1. Yellow split peas and toor dal (together) – ½ cup
2. Carrot (big) – 1 sliced into round shape
3. Green beans – 8 cut into medium pieces
4. Drum sticks – 15 pieces
5. Cabbage – a small piece
6. Potato – ½ of a medium one cut into cubes
7. Okra – 4 cut into 2
8. Green Chillies – 3 slit
9. Onion – 1
10. Tomato- 2 small
11. Red chilli – 5
12. Chana dal – 2 tsp
13. Urad dal – 1tsp
14. Jeera – ½ tsp
15. Fenugreek powder – a pinch
16. Curry leaves – 1 strip
17. Asafetida powder – a pinch
18. Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
19. Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
20. Sambar powder – 2 tsp
Preparation Method:
1. Cook dal in a cooker with a little salt and a pinch of turmeric powder. Keep it aside.
2. Add all the vegetables into the cooked dal and pressure cook it again.
3. Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.
4. Add jeera, chana dal, urad dal and red chilli, fry it.
5. Now add a pinch of fenugreek powder into it and mix.
6. Then add onions, when it become transparent add tomato and fry.
7. Add turmeric powder and sambar powder. Mix it. Add this mixture and a pinch of asafetida powder into the cooked vegetables and let it boil.
8. Sambar is ready serve with lemon rice.
2 comments:
Before making a comment on your Sambar let me first of all congratulate you on your efforts.
Your selection of vegatables makes your concoction closer to 'Avial', another South Indian recipe or an English 'hot-pot'. Cabbage,Carrot, Potato etc are not the right vegetables for a traditional Sambar. Use of Chana dhal and urud dal, too much of turmeric, pressure cooking of vegetables and lack of fresh coriander leaves and tamarind( though tomatoes may compensate to certain extent)will literally destroy Sambar. You may call it 'Modified Mixed vegetable Sambar'
Thanks for stopping by and providing your inputs/comments/critics. I like the name "Modified Mixed vegetable Sambar". I guess its a modern sambar and may not be similar to a traditional sambar. But it does taste good with lemon rice. Have a nice weekend!
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