Sambar Rice

Ingredients:

Rice                        -  1 cup (200 gms)
Thoor dal                -  4 table spoons (little more that 50 gms)
Tamarind                 -  1 small lemon size
Brinjals                    -  2 nos
Drumsticks
(Murungakkai)         -  1 no
Lady's fingers           -  3 nos
Pumpkin                  -  100 gms
Tomatoes                -  2 nos
Onions                     -  1 no
Ash gourd
(poosanikkai)           -  100 gms
Green chilies             -  2 nos
Curry leaves             -  a few leaves
Sambar powder        -  2 table spoons
Gur (Jaggery)            -  1 inch cube
Ghee                         -  3 table spoons
Gingely oil(Nallennai) -  3 - 5 table spoons
Mustard seeds           -  1 table spoon
Turmeric powdoer     -  1 tea spoon
Fenugreek seeds        -  1 tea spoon
Salt to taste

1.  Wash and soak rice and thoor dal together for 1/2 hr.
2.  Cook the rice and dal mixture till they are done and soft.
3.  Soak tamarind in warm water and take 2 cups of juice.
4.  Cut all the vegetables into 1 inch big cubes.
5.  Heat 2 table spoons of gingely oil in a kadai, add the mustards and fenugreek(vendayam).
6.  Once they crackle add the cut vegetables and stir fry till the oil spreads evenly on the vegetables.
7.  Now add the sambar powder and again stir till the whole powder spreads evenly on the vegetables and gets fries in the oil.
8.  Now add the curry leaves, slit green chilies, salt, turmeric powder, jaggery and also the tamarind juice.
9.  Let it boil till the vegetables are cooked and the raw smell of the tamarind goes off.
10.Now add the sambar to the cooked rice and dal mixture and also the ghee and gingely oil.
11.Mix thoroughly and serve hot with papad.