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Receta [Meatless Monday] One Pot Sambar Rice | Sambar Sadam | One Pot Mixed Vegetable-Dal-Rice + IFBM 2014
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Ingredientes
- Add as many colors as I can. One Pot Sambar Rice | Sambar Sadam
- Inspired from Nags Sambar Sadam recipe
- Serves 2 to 3
- Ingredients:
- 1 cup rice
- 1/2 cup toor dal (or moong dal, masoor dal)
- 3 cups of veggies, all evenly chopped - I used okra, eggplant, green beans, potato, tomato, bottle gourd, drumstick, onion
- 2 tsp (or more) sambar powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- salt - to taste
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 3.5 cups of water diluted with 2 tbsp of tamarind pulp
- For Tadka/Tempering:
- 1 tbsp oil (or ghee for that extra taste and if you not watching calories!)
- few cashew nuts, split into halves
- 1 green chilli, slit lengthwise
- 2 red chillies, nicked into halves
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1 tsp jeera (cumin seeds)
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
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