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Kadambam Recipe, Kadamba Sadan, How to make Kadambam Recipe
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 

Kadambam Recipe or Kadamba Sadan or simply sambar rice is one of the healthy nutrition filled South Indian recipes.

Course: Main Course
Cuisine: South Indian
Keyword: How to make Kadambam Recipe, Kadamba Sadan, Kadambam Recipe, sambar rice, sambar sadan
Servings: 4
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
  • Ingredients: 1 bowl = 200 ml
  • 1 bowl Yellow Lentil/ Kandipappu
  • Water Required
  • ½ tbsp. Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.
  • Oil Required
  • Tamarind – fist full
  • 3 tbsp. Ghee
  • ½ tbsp. Mustard seeds
  • ½ tbsp. Cumin seeds
  • 4 No. Green Chillies
  • 1 tbsp. Curry Leaves
  • 4 No. Dry red chillies
  • Asafoetida – A pinch
  • 1 bowl Onions
  • 1 bowl Bottle Gourd
  • 1 bowl Drum sticks
  • 1 bowl Curry Cucumber/ sorakaya
  • 1 bowl Lady finger/ okra/ bendakaya
  • ½ bowl Carrot sliced into round pieces
  • ½ tbsp. Tindora/ dondakaya
  • ½ bowl Potato
  • 7 No. Indian broad beans
  • ½ bowl Tomato
  • 2 tbsp. Salt
  • 1 tbsp. Red chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp. Jaggery
  • tbsp. Sambar powder
  • 1 large bowl Cooked rice
  • 2 tbsp. Coriander leaves
Instructions
  1. Clean yellow lentils and pour three bowls of water and pressure cook for 3 whistle blows.
  2. Tip: Adding little oil and a pinch of turmeric powder while cooking dal makes it soft.
  3. Soak tamarind and extract its pulp, keep it aside.
  4. Heat ghee in a pan and add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, dry red chillies, green chillies and curry leaves.
  5. Sprinkle asafetida, onions, curry cucumber, bottle gourd, ladyfinger, drum sticks, tindora, carrot, Indian broad beans, potato slices, tomato and any leftover veggies and mix well.
  6. Sprinkle little turmeric powder and salt, mix and cook further for 10 minutes.
  7. Once dal is cooked, mash it to soft and transfer it to above veggies.
  8. Add jaggery, tamarind pulp, red chilli powder and water.
  9. Sprinkle little sambar powder and mix well.
  10. Once you get a thick consistency, add rice and mix well.
  11. Cover the vessel with a lid and cook further of a minute or two.
  12. Once it's cooked, serve Kadambam Rice Recipe into a serving bowl and garnish with coriander leaves.

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