Carrot fry with Radish Sambar

The carry fry is one of the most easiest and fastest dishes ever (excluding the time needed to cut the carrot in to small pieces). This was one of my colleague's mom's dishes.  To go with it I made sambar with white Radish or Daikon. So here is the recipe


Carrot Poriyal (Simple stir fried carrot)

Simple carrot fry

Ingredients:

1. 2 big or 3 medium carrot peeled and chopped into 1 cm cubes
2. 1/2 cup chopped red onions
3. 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, salt, chilly powder, turmeric
4. 1 tablespoon oil

In a pan heat the oil and fry the cumin for 2-3 minutes. Add the onions and fry until they become tender. Add the carrot and cover and cook for 10 minutes on medium heat. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir to combine. Fry for 5 more minutes and serve with roti or rice and sambar

Radish Sambar (Lentil soup with Daikon)

Radish Sambar

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup toor dal dry roasted
2. 1 medium white radish cut into 1/4 inch circles
3. 2 teaspoons sambar powder
4. 1 teaspoon or less of salt
5. 1/2 teaspoon salt, turmeric power, chilly powder
6. 2 teaspoons oil
7. 1 big or 2 small garlic pods finely chopped
8. 1/4 cup roughly chopped onion (optional)
9. 2 cups juice from a small lemon sized tamarind
10. 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, mustard seeds
11. 2 dried red chillies broken
12. few curry leaves

In a pressure cooker cook the dal with turmeric and 2 cups of water for 3-4 whistles. Let the steam escape. Cook the radish for 3 minutes covered in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave.

Add all the ingredients to the dal and bring to a boil. Boil for 8-10 minutes. In a pan heat the oil and fry the cumin and mustard seeds till they start spluttering. Add the garlic, red chillies and curry leaves and fry for a couple of minutes. Add this to the dal. Continue to boil for 5 more minutes. Garnish with cilantro if you want and serve with hot rice and carrot fry