Simple paruppu sadam

Cuisine Style: Tamilnadu | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Pickle, all chips varieties | Type: Lunch or Dinner

Ingredients

• Toor dal – ½ cup
• Rice – 1 cup
• Sambar onion - 7
• Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp
• Garlic – 2 cloves
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Water as needed

Seasoning ingredients

• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp
• Peppercorns [optional] – 6
• Dry red chilli - 2
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Bengal gram – ½ tbsp
• Urad dal – ½ tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil – 2 tbsp

Method

• Wash toor dal and rice
• In a pressure cooker put rice, toor dal, cumin seeds, garlic, sambar onion and turmeric powder. Then add 3 ½ cup water and cover it and cook for 4 whistles.
• Heat pan with oil add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, Bengal, gram, urad dal, peppercorns, dry red chilli and curry leaves.
• Add these seasoning ingredients in to cooked rice and add salt mix well.
• Serve hot with pickle, chutney

How to make Simple paruppu sadam- Step by step procedure & pictures

Shallots [sambar onion], garlic

Toor dal and rice

Add cumin seeds, turmeric powder and water. cook for 4 whistles

Pressure cooked paruppu sadam

Add seasoned ingredients

Add salt & mix well

Serve hot with lemon pickle