Sambar rice recipe with step by step photos. Sambar rice recipe that is sambar sadham recipe is everyday Staple food in Tamil nadu. Sambar is the everyday food from Tamil cuisine and there are so many types of sambar made in Tamil homes. Sambar rice recipe is a quick fix meal made by cooking rice and sambar together. Sambar sadham recipe or sambar rice recipe is a very popular one pot meal in Tamil nadu hotels or restaurants. Usually sambar and rice are cooked separately for Authentic sambar rice recipe. Here I am sharing an easy pressure cooker sambar rice recipe made in 20 minutes. Though easy and quick to make this is one delicious sambar rice. Very flavorful, loaded with vegetables and so good to have piping hot during winters.
There are many ways to prepare sambar rice recipe or sambar sadham. Few popular sambar sadham recipes are chettinad sambar rice, Iyengar sambar rice etc. Hotel Saravana bhavan sambar sadham is one of the most popular in south India. Here I am sharing a recipe adapted from sambar sadham by Revathy Shanmugam. I saw this easy sambar sadham recipe in a TV show and altered a bit.
To make sambar rice recipe I have used whatever vegetables were handy. I have used pearl onions, carrot, eggplant, broad beans and capsicum. You can also use drumstick, potato, radish. This sambar rice uses freshly prepared sambar masala. This sambar masala is very very flavorful and tasty and you can use it in regular sambar recipe too. Few other easy sambar recipes you might like are drumstick sambar, instant sambar, pumpkin sambar, vengaya sambar recipes.
Serve sambar rice with vadam, potato chips, banana chips or pickle. Sambar sadham can also be served with spicy potato or raw banana fry.
If you are looking for more such easy one pot recipes do check bisi bele bath, khichdi, kharabath, venpongal recipes.
how to make sambar sadham or sambar rice recipe with step by step photos.
To prepare sambar masala
Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a small pan. Add all the ingredients expect coconut and saute for 2-3 minutes.
Add grated coconut and saute for few seconds.
Grind to a smooth paste.
To make sambar sadham
Heat a pressure cooker base with 1 tablespoon ghee.
temper with mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
Add pearl onions and saute for few minutes.
Add the cubed vegetables and saute well.
Add the prepared sambar masala and mix well. Cook for 3-4 minutes.
Add the rinsed rice, dal and mix well. Season with salt. Add 4-5 cups water. Mix well and pressure cook for 6-7 whistles.
Once the pressure is released, mix well and top with more ghee if needed. Serve sambar rice immediately.
Sambar sadham or sambar rice recipe card below:
Sambar rice recipe hotel style | Sambar sadham recipe | How to make sambar rice
1 CUP = 250 ml
Ingredients
- For sambar masala
- 6 pearl onions
- 1 small tomato chopped
- 2 tablespoons channa dal
- 2 teaspoons coriander seeds
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 1/4 teaspoon methi seeds
- 2 green chilies
- 2 dried red chilies
- 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon oil
- To make sambar rice :
- 3/4 cup raw rice
- 1/4 cup toor dal/arhar dal
- 2 teaspoons thick tamarind juice extracted from small lemon sized tamarind.
- 1 1/2 cup cubed vegetables carrot, eggplant, broad beans, yellow pumpkin, beans, capsicum
- 15 pearl onions
- 10 curry leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon jaggery
- Salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 tablespoon ghee
Instructions
- To prepare sambar masala
- Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a small pan. Add all the ingredients expect coconut and saute for 2-3 minutes.
- Add grated coconut and saute for few seconds.
- Grind to a smooth paste.
- To make sambar sadham
- Heat a pressure cooker base with 1 tablespoon ghee.
- temper with mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
- Add pearl onions and saute for few minutes.
- Add the cubed vegetables and saute well.
- Add the prepared sambar masala and mix well. Cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Add the rinsed rice, dal and mix well. Season with salt. Add 4-5 cups water. Mix well and pressure cook for 6-7 whistles.
- Once the pressure is released, mix well and top with more ghee if needed. Serve sambar rice immediately
Swati Saxena says
I am so tempted to try this easy sambar rice Harini, bookmarking it. Looks awesome!