Sambar rice is one of the common main course meal of South India. It is rich in nutrients as it contains lots of vegetables and lentils. Sambar rice is also known as Sambar sadam in state of Tamilnadu. Sadam literary means “rice” in Tamil. Sambar rice often comes in typical south indian meals. A meal in south india usually consist of sambar, rasam, poriyal, curd, applam and rice.
Sambar is reflective of a broad and ancient tradition of lentil-based vegetable stews in southern India. It is made either exclusively with one of these vegetables or a combination of okra (bindi), moringa (drumstick), carrot, radish, pumpkin, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, brinjal (eggplant) and whole or halved onions.
Sambar is part of many south indian recipes. Lot of other food items like vada sambar, idli sambar etc are based on sambar.
I have added sambar masala to give the typical south indian taste. You can also grind this masala fresh or use the market version which are also good in quality.
Sambar rice goes really well with potato poriyal and curd. You can serve it with curd raita, applam, papad and also different kinds of poriyals.
Sambar Rice Recipe: Step By Step
1. Cut all the vegetables into medium size as shown in below image. Here I have used potato, onion, carrot, beans, drumstick, tomato and garlic. You can add almost any kind of vegetables in sambar rice. Reddish and egg plant (aubergine / baingan) is also commonly added in sambar rice recipe.
