Paruppu Sadam:
A wonderful meal for your lunch box, only a few minutes of effort to prepare this delicious and energetic meal. Paruppu sadam is itself a complete meal, matches with any vegetable stir fry, potato spicy fry or with simple papad and chips. Greatly agreeable during the shortage of vegetables.

Ingredients to prepare: Yield for three person
Rice 1 cup
Toor dal- 1/2 cup
Sambar powder-1 tsp
Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp
Chili flakes-1/4 tsp
Salt-1/2 tsp
Tomato-1 chopped
Shallots peeled and chopped-7 nos
Capsicum -1 small cut into cubes
Curry leaves-1 twig
Ghee-1 tsp
Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp
For Seasoning:
Oil- 2 tsp
Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds-1/4 tsp
Assafoetida-1/4 tsp
Method to prepare:
Rinse rice and dal, add 2 1/2 cups of water soak for 10 minutes, add turmeric powder and cook in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles.
Heat Pan with oil and season it with above mentioned “For seasoning” ingredients.
Add hing and curry leaves to it, add chopped shallots, and tomato saute for a while and add cube cut capsicum.
Now add Salt, Chilli flakes and sambar masala powder,sprinkle some water.
Finally add cooked rice and dal to it mix well in low flame.
Smear some ghee and switch it off.
Paruppu sadam is ready to serve or pack for lunch.

Note: Capsicum is added for flavor if you don’t like you can skip it.
Rice and dal can be soaked and added to the seasoned ingredients, can be cooked for 3 whistles after seasoning. It is up to your preference.