Super Quick Sambar Sadham

This is a one pot meal and i make this when I am running out of ideas or don’t want to make a veggie and a dal separately! My quick gun Murugan recipe J

The kids love it, we love it and it is healthy, wholesome and absolutely yummy – The power of the pressure cooker – I am sharing with you a poem I wrote a while ago in ode to my pressure cooker –

My Pressure Cooker

My precious cooker

You are by no means a looker

All brown and spotty

Blowing up when you’re naughty

You’ve helped me put out food

The feedback's usually very good

I understand your loud fussy cry

You are on fire, no wonder why!

Your bottom is lit up

In your belly a boiling cup!

Quite unlike a diabolic dynamite

Whose single strand of hair stands upright!

When set ablaze

Your fate you embrace

Your reactions more demure

What you cannot cure, you endure

I have no heart to throw you out

Even if you have a broken snout

Please accept my gratitude

And show me no attitude

You were made to rock

So quit the back talk

You are in it for the long haul

I promise to answer your every call

Now get to work, you old grouch

While I key this in, on the couch

--Priya Mani

My Super quick recipe

Ingredients

1 cup toor dal (pre-soaked for 30 minutes)

1-1/2 cups of rice

½ a red onion

1 can of diced tomatoes

Frozen veggies – peas and carrots and beans

2 tbsp butter

Curry leaves, cahsews and mustard to garnish

Secret ingredient for this batch 

1 habanero chili

4 cups of water

Salt to taste.

Preparation

Gently sautee the rice and veggies in 1 tsp of ghee

Add the dal

Place in a vessel and pressure cook 4-5 minutes after the rocker starts making noise

Once it is cool, remove from pressure cooker

Use masher to get it all nice and mushy

Splutter mustard, curry leaves in a tsp of butter and add to the mix

Melt butter or use ghee to pour (the rest of the ghee that is required for this recipe) on top and garnish with Cashews

Serve HOT HOT HOT J

I cannot tell you how much the habanero pepper enhanced the taste of this dish!

Day 7 and the final post of the week long blogging marathon initiated by Srivalli. 

In it with me are: Divya,  Harini, Jay, Kamalika, Ila,  Padma Rekha Pavani Priya's Recipes Suma Gandlur Vatsala Priya Vaasu Veena Krishnakumar