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How to prepare rice and sambar?

• Hiiii, m in need to prepare food for lunch... i dont know how to cook and all, i know to cook maggi only.. and i lll prepare tea also.. but now i want to prepare food.... pls any one help me to prepare rice and sambar..... in easiest way... pls............

• Answer:

  I don't know the easiest way to cook, but I certainly know the tastiest way to cook sambar (using sambar powder available in market, not the instant-mix). Rice... 1. A custard bowl of rice is enough for one person. Take as many bowls of rice as the number of people 2. Wash the rice off in water. 3. Add water double the quantity of the rice taken and keep it on stove on full flame 4. When the water starts over-flowing, turn the flame on simmer and keep the lid a little open to avoid further overflowing of water. 5. Depending on the quantity keep checking at regular intervals if water is still left. You can turn off the stove when you hear sound of rice getting stuck (or when you don't hear the sound of boiling water). Sambar: 1. You need 4 drumsticks, 2 normal-size carrots and around 150g of beans to make sambar for 2 people. Also soak 4-5 leaves of tamarind in water in a bowl. 2. Take a custard bowl of Yellow Pigeon Peas (Toor Dal), wash off in water. 3. Put in water three times the quantity of the Dal, into a pressure cooker. 4. Cut the beans one-inch long and add into the dal + water in the cooker and turn on to high flame on the stove. Turn it off after 3-4 whistles. 5. Meanwhile cut the carrots 1.5-inch long and a quarter inch thin. Cut the drum sticks too 2-inch long. 6. Add the chopped carrots and drum sticks into the pressure cooker along with a tomato cut into two halves. Again put it on stove on full flame and turn off after just one whistle. 7. Meanwhile, cut a small onion in long and slender slices. Cut 4-5 garlic pieces in small slices. 8. Fry the chopped onions and garlic, along with a little mustard, zeera, Karipatta, 1-2 dry red chillies, in 3-tea spoons cooking oil, until the onions turn brown. 9. Turn off the stove and immediately add 4-t spoons of sambar powder (I prefer the brand MTR), 4-t spoons of red chilli powder, 2-t spoons of coriander powder, 2-t spoons of zeera powder and the tamarind juice. mix it properly. 10. Add the fried mix into the dal and vegetable mix in the pressure cooker. Add water and salt according to your taste and turn on the gas. 11. Heat the mix for 5-minutes on full flame (don't close cooker lid) and you're ready with sambar. You can garnish it with coriander leaves.