Saambar saadam

Ingredients:-

Rice - 1cup
Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Carrot - 2 medium, chopped into thin discs or any shape of your choice
Beans - 1/2 cup(when chopped fine)
Potato - 1 small, chopped into cubes
Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
Sambar onion(small one) - 10 nos
Tamarind - 1 lemon size ball soaked in water(1/4 cup)
Hot water - 4 cups water for cooking rice and daal.
Water - 3/4 cups additional for extracting tamarind pulp. Add 1/4 cup water at a time and extract.
Salt - to taste
Sambar powder - 2tbsp
Gingely oil - 1 tbsp
Ghee - 1tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1tsp
Chana dal - 1tbsp
Curry leaves - few

Preparation:-
Pressure cook rice, daal and vegetables in 4 cups water along with turmeric powder. Once the pressure releases, mash the rice-daal-veg and add salt. Set this aside.

Heat a kadai, add gingely oil and then ghee. When it turns hot, add mustard seeds, when they crackle, add chana dal and curry leaves. Fry till chana dal turns slightly brown. Now add the rice-daal-veg to this and mix well. Now add the extracted tamarind pulp(1 cup) to this and let it come to a boil. Add sambar powder and mix it well. At this point, if the mixture is too thick, add little hot water and loosen it. Transfer it to a bowl.

You can have this sambar saadam with onion raitha and papad.