Mixed vegetable and dhall rice  

HOW TO PREPARE: - Wash dhall and rice seperately and soak for 1/2 an hour. Take a pressure cooker add some water and dhall and allow it to boil. Add some turmeric powder and a tspn of oil. Take a blender and add coconut, cumin seeds, onion, garlic, red chillies. Grind them together to a coarse paste. When the dhall is half cooked add vegetables like drumstick, carrot and beans. Allow them to cook for 5 mins and then add brinjal, raw banana and potato. Let them get cooked for 10 mins. Now add the soaked rice, grinded paste and tamarind pulp. Add required amount of salt. In a seperate pan, pour some gingelly oil, add mustard seeds, urid dhall, curry leaves, asafoetida powder, small onions and fry for sometime. Add this to the rice, dhall, vegetables mixture. Mix everything thoroughly and in a low flame cook it by covering with a lid. (no need to put the whistle). Once in a while open the lid and mis them from the bottom of the cooker so that it will not stick to the bottom. Serve hot with onion raitha, papads.