Kadamba Sadam

               While gazing through my  refrigerator, thinking about today`s menu,i found that i had an assortment of vegetables but in small quantity so i thought to make a kadamba sadam using all of  them.As the name implies it is rice mixed with cooked toor dhal and an assortment of vegetables like Beans,Carrot, Potato, Tomato, Bangalore kathirikkai (chow chow), Vazhakkai (raw plantain), Kothavarangai (cluster beans), Cheppankizhangu (taro root) . You can use almost any vegetables of  your choice.The following recipe serves four.
Ingredients:
Toor dhal / thuvaram paruppu - 1/2 cup
Dhaniya - 1 tsp
Bengal gram / Kadalai paruppu - 1 tsp
Red chilly - 4 nos
Asafoetida / perungayam - 1/2 tsp
Sambar powder - 1/2 tbsp
Rice - 2 cup
Potato - 1 ( big )
Kathirikkai - 2 nos
Avarakkai / broad beans - 6 nos
Carrot - 1 no
Beans - 10 nos
Sqaush / Parangikkai - 1 piece
Ash gourd / poosanikai - 1 piece
Tamarind pulp - amla size
Salt - to taste
Method:

Pressure cook toor dhal and rice separately.Chop the vegetables for about an inch and microwave it for 3 minutes.Use a fork to check whether the vegetables are cooked.(By using three separate vessels at the same time to pressure cook  toor dhal,rice & the veggies, saves time and fuel) Soak the tamarind in a cup of hot water for 15 minutes and extract the pulp.Add curry leaves,salt, sambar powder and bring it to boil.Heat a very  little oil in a small pan and add dhaniya,gram dhal,asafeotida,red chillies and grind it into a fine powder.Add this powder to the boiling sambar.All these powder will give a nice aroma.Add the veggies and cooked toor dhal to the sambar.Boil for 5 minutes and turn off the stove.Take cooked rice in a mixing bowl and smash it with a laddle.Now add the sambar to the rice and mix well.(Don`t smash with a laddle after adding the sambar as we don`t  want our veggies to go out of shape).Add a laddle of oil or ghee,mix well and serve hot with poricha appalam (fried pappads) / and raitha.