Last meal I cooked was tomato chitranna, a simple rice dish. For some reason, my electric stove was working even better than before, so I ended up scorching the spices just a bit. It didn't seem to affect the taste though.
I made the sambar powder beforehand, toasting the spices in my pan and then grinding them with a mortar and pestle. The rest of the recipe was pretty straightforward.
Verdict: tasty, though not the best dish from the Indian subcontinent I've made during this project. I probably should have cooked it for longer, or took more care in chopping the onions and tomatoes small -- the tomatoes still had bite to them in the final dish.
