Millet sambar rice or sambar millets recipe with step by step instructions and photos.
Jump to RecipeSambar rice is a one of the famous dishes in south India. It is a combination of dal, millets, vegetables and few spices. Sambar rice is one flavorful and comforting dish mostly made in tamil kitchens, but now it is prepared and enjoyed all over India. In Tamil nadu it is called sambar sadam, in telugu it is sambar annam.
That one spoon of ghee added at the end of the preparation enhances the flavor of the dish extensively. Since we use more than one veggies to make this dish, it has lot of flavors. We can use any vegetables like carrot, radish, drumstick, beans, pumpkin etc. We can also use any millet, I am using kodo millet. Even each millet has different taste and flavor.
In this sambar rice we use toor dal and millets as main ingredients. Toor dal or when it comes to any type of dal, they are high in protein. We can use combination of dals, like toor dal and moong dal or even masoor dal to make this dish. In other hand, Millets are also very good for our health. They are rich in fiber and it is Low-glycemic index food. You can use any millet for this recipe, i am using kodo millet. Finally, this dish is packed with lot of goodness, taste and flavor.
Millet Sambar rice recipe – Procedure
Preparation for sambar rice:-
First, nicely wash and rinse millets. Soak them for 6 to 8 hours. Soak toor dal 15 mins before cooking.
For sambar powder preparation, dry roast below ingredients
- 1 tbsp. Coriander seeds
- 1 tsp Chana dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 5 to 6 red chilli’s
dry roast all of them and grind it into fine powder.
Now cook dal and millet. Add both soaked toor dal, millets and turmeric powder into a pressure cooker, pour 3 cups of water and cook it for 5 to 6 whistles. Release the pressure naturally. Cook it soft and mushy.
Cut the required vegetables and keep them ready to start cooking. Soak small lemon size tamarind and take the juice.
Millet sambar rice – Cooking
Heat some oil a pan, add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add few curry leaves and shallots and let the shallots fry for 2 minutes.
Add tomato and cook it nice and mushy.
Once tomato is cooked, add all the veggies and fry them for 5 minutes. Add turmeric powder and salt, mix well.
Pour required amount of water for the veggies to boil. Cover and cook the veggies soft and tender.
Add the sambar powder and red chilli powder and mix it well. Add some water and bring it to boil.
Pour the tamarind juice into the sambar bring to boil.
Add the cooked dal and millet, give it a nice mix. Let it boil for 5 minutes.
At last top it with some ghee and coriander leaves.
Healthy, tasty and very flavorful millet sambar rice is ready. Serve it with some fry, papad of your choice.
Notes
- Soak millets for at least 6 hours before cooking. Soak toor dal 15 minutes before cooking so that sambar rice will come out soft and mushy.
- Shallots enhances the taste of the dish, else use regular onion.
- I have added few red chilli’s because i can adjust and add the spice accordingly.
- At last, do not forget to top with some ghee, it enhances the taste.
- Choose veggies according to your taste because each vegetable has different taste.
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Millet sambar rice | Sambar millet
Ingredients
To grind
- 1 tbsp. Coriander seeds
- 1 tsp chana dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- ½ tsp pepper
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 5 to 6 nos. red chilli's
For sambar millet
- ¾ cup kodo millet
- ½ cup toor dal
- 1 carrot
- 10 nos. beans
- 1 drum stick
- 10 to 12 Shallots
- 1 Tomato
- 1 tbsp. Sambar powder
- 1 tbsp. red chilli powder
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- few curry leaves
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- few coriander leaves
- required water
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp. Oil
- 1 tsp Ghee
Instructions
Preparation for sambar rice:-
- First, nicely wash and rinse millets. Soak them for 6 to 8 hours. Soak toor dal 15 mins before cooking.
- For sambar powder preparation, dry roast the ingredients under "to grind" and grind into fine powder.
- Now cook dal and millet. Add both soaked toor dal and millets into a pressure cooker, pour 3 cups of water and cook it for 5 to 6 whistles. Release the pressure naturally. Cook it soft and mushy.
- Cut the required vegetables and keep them ready to start cooking. Soak small lemon size tamarind and take the juice.
Millet sambar rice – Cooking
- Heat some oil a pan, add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add few curry leaves and shallots and let the shallots fry for 2 minutes.
- Add tomato and cook it nice and mushy.
- Once tomato is cooked, add all the veggies and fry them for 5 minutes. Add turmeric powder and salt, mix well.
- Pour required amount of water for the veggies to boil. Cover and cook the veggies soft and tender.
- Add the sambar powder and red chilli powder and mix it well. Add some water and bring it to boil.
- Pour the tamarind juice into the sambar bring to boil.
- Add the cooked dal and millet, give it a nice mix. Let it boil for 5 minutes.
- At last top it with some ghee and coriander leaves.
- Healthy, tasty and very flavorful millet sambar rice is ready. Serve it with some fry, papad of your choice.
Notes
- Soak millets for at least 6 hours before cooking. Soak toor dal 15 minutes before cooking so that sambar rice will come out soft and mushy.
- Shallots enhances the taste of the dish, else use regular onion.
- I have added few red chilli’s because i can adjust and add the spice accordingly.
- At last, do not forget to top with some ghee, it enhances the taste.
- Choose veggies according to your taste because each vegetable has different taste.
