Arisi Paruppu Sadam

It’s one of the special dishes in Coimbatore. I used to prepare dal and rice separately. Few of my friends from Coimbatore, they used to talk about arisi paruppu sadam. Then I got an idea to prepare in my kitchen after referred some sites. It’s nice to have, perfectly fit with kid’s lunch box.

Even if we get bored to cook, we can easily prepare this dish without any veggie. I prepared potato curry with this rice.

This goes well with any fry(both veg/nonveg), papad, raita…

Ingredients

Rice – 1 ½ cups

Toor Dal – ½ cup

Chopped Shallots – 20

Crushed Garlic - 5

Finely Chopped Tomatoes – 2 (medium)

Sliced green Chilli – 4                                                            

Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp

Sambar powder – 2 tsp

Ghee – 5 tsp

(To Temper)

Oil – 1 tsp

Cinnamon – 2

Clove - 2

Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp

Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Dry Red Chilli – 3

Curry Leaves – few

Hing – a pinch

Chopped Coriander Leaves – few

Method

In a big bowl add rice and toor dal. Soak it for at least 45 min to 1 hour. When I tried this recipe at first time, I didn't allow it for soaking more than 15 min. That should not mushy.

Then next time I allowed soaking the rice and dal around 1 hour. It came out very well.

In a pressure cooker, heat ghee. Add all the ingredients which are under “temper” and saute for few min.

Then add chopped onions, and fry till it turns slight golden color. Now add the chopped tomatoes and fry till it becomes mushy

Add crushed garlic, turmeric powder, sambar powder and required water and close the lid and cook it till 5 whistles comes out.

Then switch off the flame and let it cool completely. And then add ghee, chopped coriander leaves.

Serve arisi paruppu sadam with papad or potato fry!!!