Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sambar. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Sambar is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Sambar is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sambar using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
- Make ready 200 gm Toor Dal
- Get 50 gm Chana Dal
- Get 250 gm Chopped veggies
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- Get Salt to taste
- Get 2 tsp Tamarind paste
- Prepare 4 tsp Sambar powder
- Make ready 2 Green chilli
- Take 2 Onions
- Get 5-7 Garlic cloves
- Prepare 10-12 Curry leaves
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:
- Pressure-cook the dal in 500 ml of water with salt and turmeric powder for three whistles. Open the lid and add 250 g of chopped vegetables like brinjal, ladies finger, radish, drumstick, pumpkin etc. Cover and cook till the vegetables are soft and tender. Add 2 tsp sambar powder. Add onion(sliced), green chilli (slit), tamarind paste and cook for a while. Keep it aside.
- Heat 2-3 tsp oil in a deep pan. Temper 1/2 tsp panch phutan, 2 dry chillis, 5-7 garlic cloves (crushed), a pinch of hing and 10-12 curry leaves.
- Add boiled dal and vegetables. Add the remaining sambar powder and cover the pan. Reduce the heat and turn off the flame after 2 minutes.
- Serve hot with steamed rice.
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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