Saambaar saadham

This my amma's recipe.

Ingredients:
Onion - 1
Rice - 3/4 cup
Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Salt - to taste
Turmeric - a pinch
Mint - 15 leaves
Coriander chopped - 4 spoon
ghee - 2 spoon
cooking oil - 3 spoon
Tamarind - nellikkaai size

To Grind:
Kadalai paruppu - 2 spoon
Ulundu paruppu - 2 spoon
Dhania - 3 spoon
Pepper - 1/2 spoon
Seeragam - 1/2 spoon
Garlic - 4 flakes
Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
Pattai - 1 inch stick
Cloves - 2
Sombu - 1 spoon
Red chillies - 4
Coconut - 3 spoon

Method:
Heat 1 spoon oil and fry kadalaip paruppu and ulundu paruppu till it reddens. Then add dhania and fry. Add rest of the ingredients mentioned in "To Grind" and fry till it reddens. Then let it cool. Grind it in mixie with little water into a coarse paste.
Meanwhile cook rice and toor dal separately.
Add 2 cups water to the ground paste and let it boil for 5 minutes. Then add this, tamarind water, salt and tunrmeric to the cooked dal and boil for 10 minutes. Add this to the cooked rice and mix well. Close the rice cooker(without weight) and keep it in the stove(medium) for 5 minutes. Then open the cooker, add coriander leaves and 2 spoon ghee and mix again. Serve hot with raita or chips/murukku.