Lentil Rice With Vegetables | KaiKari Paruppu Sadham | Lunchbox Recipe

This is perfect one pot meal. It is quiet similar to paruppu sadham but bit varied due to the addition of vegetables. You can cook this in 10mins excluding the soaked time. I cook this mostly during weekends. If you feel lazy to cook during holidays, then this is your recipe. You can serve this with onion raitha and papad.

 Lentil Rice With Vegetables

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Toor dal - 1/2 cup

Big onion - 1

Tomato - 1 or 2

Red Chilli - 2

Potato - 1

Brinjal - 2

Carrot - 1

Sambar powder - 2 tsp

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Salt - to taste

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - a sprig

Coriander leaves - to garnish

Oil - 1 tsp

Ghee - 1 tsp

Water - as required

Method:

Mix together rice and toor dal, wash and soak in 4 cups water for 20-30mins.

Cut potato into small cubes, brinjal and carrot into desired sizes. Put them in clean water until ready to use.

Finely chop onion and tomato and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add in mustard seeds. When it splutters add curry leaves and dry red chilli.

Add in onion and stir well. When it becomes translucent add chopped tomato. Sauté until it turns mushy.

Then add all the vegetables and stir well for 1-2 mins. And then add sambar powder, turmeric and salt.

And add the soaked rice and dal along with the water. Add 1 more cup of water to it and mix well.

Once the rice is visible above water, close the lid and cook for 4 whistles.

When the pressure is released add little ghee and mix well. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve with raita and papad.

Note:

• Adding ghee will enhance its taste and you will get a nice aroma.
• You can also add peas and raw plantain to this.

Pictorial:

Keep all your ingredients ready

Soak together rice and toor dal in 4 cups of water for 30 mins

Chop the tomato, onion and vegetables into desired sizes

Heat oil in a pressure cooker

Add mustard seeds. When it begins to crackle, add curry leaves

Add chopped onion and red chillies

When onions become translucent, add chopped tomato

After 1 or 2 mins, add the chopped vegetables. Saute for 2 mins

Add turmeric and salt to taste

Then add 2 to 3 tsp of sambar powder and give it a stir

Add in soaked rice, lentil and coriander leaves and mix well

Close the lid and pressure cook for 4 whistles

When the pressure is released add little ghee and mix well. This will enhance the taste

Its ready!