Tuesday, 12 March 2019

Sambar rice for healthy weight loss



If u maintain a healthy diet it is the solution to many problems and you will see pounds coming down . Fruits and vegetables are gifts from mother nature if u add more of these in your daily diet they help to heal your body and keeps you full longer . I dont find difficult to maintain a healthy diet now because i 💖 the change . And I would call this Sambar rice recipie as balanced diet

Ingredients I used

Rice - 2cups
Toor dal - 2 cups
Water - 10cups(To cook rice and dal)
Carrots - 2big
Beetroot - 1big
Radish - 1 big
Tomatoes - 4 big
Brinjal - 4
Bottle guard- 5 inch piece
Sambar powder - 4tbs
Turmeric powder - 1tbs
Red chilli powder - 2tbs
Tamarind water - extracted from lemon sized tamarind
Jaggery - a small piece
Salt - according to taste
Ghee - 3tbs
Hing  , curry leaves and chopped Coriander leaves

Method
Firstly take rice and dal wash ,  then  in a pressure cooker cook for 5 whistles , keep a side

 Chop all veggies
 Now drop chopped vegetables in to pressure cooker (This makes your cooking time faster)
Now add salt , turmeric and red chilli powder 
Now  goes in tamarind water
Quickly coriander  , curry leaves and jaggery now close lid 
 Keeping flame on medium cook for 1 whistle (If it keep flame on high you can wait for 2 whistles). Now switch off the flame and wait for lid to fall down
Vegetables are cooked perfectly

Keeping flame on medium high , Take a thick bottomed pan and place on the stove now add ghee and let ghee gets heated after heating tamper with dry chilli , curry leaves , jeera , mustered , hing and lastly curry leaves
When seasoning is done immediately transfer cooked veggies in to the seasoning
 Now add Sambar powder and cook for a minute
 After a minute transfer cooked rice and dal into vegetable mixture
Mix nicely till rice completely mixes with sambar
If rice is too thick u can add 1 cup of water (u can skip this If it is runny)
Top with ghee
Now feep flame on simmer ,Close with lid and cook for 5 mins

 Done , look at the beautiful color of rice because of beet root I added , serve hot😊