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
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
When seasoning is done immediately transfer cooked veggies in to the seasoning
Now add Sambar powder and cook for a minuteAfter 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