Wash and clean both rice and dal and soak together for 15 mins. After 15 mins in a pressure cooker add soaked rice and dal, salt, haldi and hing and cook upto 2 whistles (Quick Tip: Add Hing while boiling to allow the whole grain and pulse absorb its aroma)
Cut all the veggies length wise and put them in water except bhindi. Slice the big onions and keep aside. Crush the tomatoes and keep aside (Quick Tip: Instead of cutting tomatoes, try crushing so as to extract better flavour). Clean and peel the small onions and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, zeera and Methi, let them crackle. Now add red Chili and curry leaves and saute. Add sliced onions and saute them up to pinkish in colour. Add all the veggies, salt, haldi and red chilli powder. Saute upto the veggies are 90% cooked. Now add the boiled rice and dal and MTR samber powder. Cook them properly and let the veggies cook.. Now add tamarind pulp and balance the seasoning.
Serve hot with a spoon of ghee and with any side dish of your choice.
