Sambar Rice | Sambar Saadam | How to Make Sambar Rice

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Boiled Vegetables, Tamarind juice, Sambar Powder, Salt, and Chilli powder are added to soft boiled Toor Dal and Rice and finally given a Tadka of seasoning. The Sambar Rice prepared in this traditional way is delicious and ideal for packing in Lunch Boxes!!!

Sambar Rice is relished greatly by people of TamilNadu, more than the Telugu people. In Tamil Nadu this preparation is called Sambar Saadam. When you don’t have the energy to make an elaborate meal, and yet want to cook something which takes little time and gives big satisfaction, you can think of Sambar Rice. It is a perfect dish to cook just for these reasons. I call Sambar Rice a 20 minute wonder dish. The Vismai Food style Sambar Rice recipe is simply superb in taste!!!

Even if the Sambar Rice is considered to be a commonly well-known dish, the whole difference lies in the ingredients used, the measurements, and the cooking method. The recipe that I use is perfect because, the way I cook it, the Sambar Rice will never lump up even when it is cold. And, it is tasty no doubt. Before you get down to cook the dish as per the given recipe, I suggest you look at the detailed Tips.

Tips

How to cook dal and rice:

• Wash the Rice and Toor Dal and soak for at least one hour. This will ensure that the Rice will cook to a soft consistency when boiled.

• Let the rice cook till soft. But do not mash to a paste. When the Rice cooks in the Sambar, it will anyway mash up a little.

Vegetable Pieces:

• You may use any vegetable in Sambar Rice except Bitter Gourd (Karela). The vegetables that are to be used definitely are Drumsticks, Sambar onions, Ash Gourd, and Ladies’ Fingers. I have used ten kinds of vegetables. You may use more or less than my number! Anyway, use any vegetables that are available to you easily.

• Take care not to use more than 275 grams of vegetables in all, for the measure of rice that I have indicated. If you use more vegetables, the dish will have excess of vegetable pieces, and the taste of the rice will be lost.

Some more Tips:

• If you feel the need to thin out the sambar Rice, add some hot water.

• Mix the sambar Powder, Salt, Chilli Powder and turmeric in the Tamarind juice. This will help to mix the spices in the rice evenly.

• Adding Ghee at the very end is definitely compulsory! The flavour of the Sambar Rice will go to another level of flavourful-ness when ghee is added!!