Bachelor Food..Quick Sambar Bhath / Huli Anna

Many bachelors living in the US and other places far away from family especially if they are from South India crave a simple good Huli anna or Sambar Bhath or Sambar Saadam. And this is one dish you dont get in restuarants. Of course, you do get the famed Bisi Bele but it is too spicy for an everyday huli anna. So this post is for all those youngsters and olders . This is also good for families after a tiring day and you dont feel like an elaborate dinner. It is equal to khichdi chawal..maybe tastier.

Rice 1 cup
Tur dal 1/2 cup
Frozen mixed vegetables...like some peas and carrots, papdi lilva, drumsticks, beans, cluster beans and whatever.
Tamarind paste or soaked tamarind mixed with water...1/4 cup
MTR sambar powder 2 tablespoons
salt
oil 1 tablespoon
mustard 1/2 teaspoon
urad dal 1 teaspoon
red chillies 2
hing

• Wash tur dal and rice together and cook it together with the vegetables, add 3 cups water and cook in a pressure cooker
• Heat oil, add mustard, hing, urad dal, and red chilllies
• Once urad dal is light brown, add tamarind juice and sambar powder and allow to boil well for 5 minutes
  
• Add another 1/4 cup water to this and add the rice-dal-veg mixture and salt
  
• Mix very well, if mixture is too dry , add some water.and cook well.
• Sambar bhath is ready. Have it with the pumpkin raitha for a comforting dinner that will remind you of home.