Arisi Sundal Recipe – Easy Dinner Recipes

This is not the usual sundal we make with legumes/pulses.This is rice upma which my MIL call it arisi sundal. It can be made in a jiffy and its healthy too..Less oil is used.I usually make this for dinner.It tastes the best with coriander leaves thogayal or sambar 🙂 As its a one pot recipe, it is ideal for bachelors and working women to make a quick dinner after coming back from office 🙂 Do try it out and have a relaxed dinner !

Rice Sundal

Ingredients:


1 cup – 200ml

  • Raw rice – 3/4 cup
  • Moong dal – 1/4 cup.(Equal ratio of rice & dal is also good)
  • Water – 2.25 cups
  • Salt  – as needed.
  • Grated coconut – 1/4 cup

To temper:

  • Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
  • Urad dal – 1/2 tsp
  • Green chilly – 1-2 nos
  • Curry leaves – a sprig
  • Asafetida / hing – 1/4 tsp (half during tempering and half should be added raw in the water)
  • Ginger – 1 inch (finely chopped )
  • Oil – 2 tsp

Method:

  • Dry roast the rice till it puffs up slightly.
  • Dry roast the moong dal till it turns light golden brown with a nice aroma.Set aside.
  • Both the above process takes hardly 5 mins.
  • Then in the same hot kadai , add 1 tsp of oil and do the tempering part.
  • As i had mentioned earlier, half the quantity of asafetida should be added while tempering along with the dals.
  • After tempering , just add the water,salt , roasted rice & moong dal.
  • Now add the remaining hing and ginger pieces.
  • Add a tsp of oil and close the cooker with the lid. (adding oil in the water makes the rice separate, u all know this)
  • Cook for 1 whistle .Cool, open and add the grated coconut before serving!!

Serve with sambar/ coconut chutney!!!

Rice sundal with Sambhar

Have a nice day!!Happy

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37 thoughts on “Arisi Sundal Recipe – Easy Dinner Recipes”

  1. The rice looks great! I love to have with sambar..infact the picture of the rice with sambar is so tempting!

  2. Gita Jaishankar

    Great dish Chitra…looks yummy 🙂 My mom used to make a similar dish with toor dhal for lunch box during my school days.

  3. hi chitra,
    healthy mixed rice, love legumes and lentils in rice 🙂 looks yummm!
    ur tried and tasted dish looks slurrrrrrrrrp.
    TC

  4. Ramya Vijaykumar

    Chitra the pics are tempting me so much!!! I havent tried making rice like this… Coconut and dhal mmm so healthy and mouthwatering combo!!!

  5. i like this very much…one we get from kovil is my all time favorite….This looks yummy dear..color and the way you presented it..just perfect..:)

  6. hi chitra, its a lovely dish, very healthy too.., both of them look so tempting…. :), it’s a new kind of sundal for me

  7. Tangled Noodle

    I love rice dishes and this looks so delicious! I just realized that I often see grated coconut in your recipes. Do you grate fresh coconut and if so, how do you store it and for how long?

  8. Thank u all..:)

    @TN, I dont grate coconut always..For chutneys and other recipes, i just cut the coconut into pieces and blend it..But for this upma,grated coconut would taste better!!:)

  9. First time in your place too and you have a lovely collection of homely recipes :)…glad to see a blogger in India!!!!

  10. first time here …. have nice recipes here ….. looks delicious … thanks for visiting my blog …

  11. Both the dishes look lovely … New to your blog …. you have a lovely blog with yummy recipes… will visit it often 🙂

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