Sambar
Sambar

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sambar. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Sambar is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Sambar is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Sambar - south Indian lentil stew made with vegetables, lentils and a special blend of spices. Unfortunately, most of the restaurants here make really bad sambar. Sambar recipe with step by step photos.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sambar using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
  1. Make ready 1/2 cup Toor Dal
  2. Make ready 1/4 lemon sized tamarind
  3. Prepare 1 cup drumstick pieces
  4. Prepare 1 Medium size Tomato
  5. Take 10 shallots
  6. Take Curry leaves few
  7. Make ready Coriander leaves few
  8. Prepare 1 1/2 Tbsp Sambar Powder
  9. Make ready 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
  10. Make ready Salt as per your taste
  11. Make ready Water as required
  12. Make ready Few drops Castor oil
  13. Get 1/2 tsp Oil
  14. Take 1/2 tsp Ghee
  15. Take 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
  16. Prepare 1 pinch Asafoetida
  17. Prepare 5 Fenugreek seeds

Sambar is a traditional South Indian stew that goes well with idli, dosa, steamed rice or can be served as a soup. Any South Indian meal, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner, would be considered incomplete without Sambhar or one of its variants. Sambar, a hot and spicy lentil soup with mixed vegetables, is a must have accompaniment for popular South Indian breakfast and lunch recipes like Idli, Dosa, Medu Vada, Steamed Rice etc. A few years back Sambar used to be defined as South Indian delicacy, confined only to the Southern states of India.

Steps to make Sambar:
  1. In a cookware add washed toor dal and some water till dal soaks. Add turmeric powder,few drops of edible castor oil and ghee. Cover and cook until dal breaks.
  2. In another cookware add the drumstick pieces, salt and some water till it soaks. Cover and cook for 5 mins.
  3. Add tamarind to 1/4cup water and bring it to boil. Allow it to cool.
  4. In a currypan add oil. Add mustard seeds,fenugreek and asafoetida. Fry it.
  5. Add half of the chopped shallots and curry leaves. Fry it until onions becomes translucent.
  6. Add the cooked drumsticks with that water also. Then add chopped tomato.
  7. Then add the cooked dal with water,tamarind extract, balance shallots, sambar powder and salt. Add some water to it.
  8. Cover and cook for 15mins. Atlast add some coriander leaves. Sambar is ready.
  9. Serve it with hot rice,idlis and dosas.

I have used homemade sambar powder to make sambar recipe. But store-bought powder will work Wash and chop all the veggies you want to add to the sambar. I have used carrots, baingan (small. Sambar recipe - This is simple and basic south Indian sambar recipe. It is the part of their everyday meal for most of households in South Indian Here I have used homemade sambar masala powder.

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