Arisi Paruppu Satham

       Arisi paruppu satham is very easy to prepare. It is one of the popular South Indian thoor dhal rice especially in Kongu areana. This is very tasty, popular and easy to prepare one pot meal. If you are in hurry, then you can go for making this rice either for lunch or dinner because I used to do that. Normally I used to prepare this rice once in a week.

Ingredients
Rice	1 cup
Thoor Dhal	1/2 cup
Onion	1
Tomato	1
Mustard seeds	1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds	1 tsp
Pepper corns	1 tsp
Garlic	3 pods
Green chilli	3
Turmeric powder	3/4 tsp
Coriander leaves	2 tbsp(chopped)
Oil or Butter	1 tbsp
Salt	to taste

 
   Soak rice and dhal together for 1/2 an hour. Grind cumin seeds, pepper corns and garlic together and keep aside.    In pressure cooker, heat butter and add mustard seeds and  green chillies. When it starts frying, add sliced onion and saute till onion becomes soft.

   Add garlic-cumin paste, turmeric powder and saute till raw smell of garlic disappears. Add tomato and little salt and cook till tomato gets cooked. Add soaked rice and dhal and fry for 2 minutes.

   Add soaked rice and dhal and fry for 2 minutes. Add 1 3/4 cup of water and necessary amount of salt. When the water starts to boil, close the lid and allow 3 whistles.

   Switch off the stove and leaves for 5 minutes in the stove. Release the pressure and add coriander leaves to it.

   You can serve this with ghee and curd. For sidedish, egg, brinjal curry and pappadams are the best combiation.

Note:

• If the rice is mashy, it will give more taste to this recipe.
• You can also add 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp sambhar powder while adding tomato.