Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, sambar. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna 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 current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Sambar is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sambar using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
- Prepare 1/4 cup Toor dal
- Take 1/4 cup Moong dal
- Take 2 cloves Garlic
- Get 1 tsp Cumin seed
- Take 4 tsp Oil
- Take 1 cup Vegetables
- Make ready 1 Tomato
- Make ready 12 Shallots
- Make ready 1 Tamarind lime size
- Prepare 2 tsp Turmeric powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp Sambar powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Asafoetida
- Take 1/2 tsp Mustard seed
- Prepare 1 Dry chilli
- Get 1 string Curry leaves
- Take As required Coriander leaves handful
- Take as reqiued Salt
- Make ready As required Jaggery little
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:
- Wash and soak both the dals for 10 mins. Soak tamarind separately.
- Add 1 chopped tomato, 2 garlic cloves, cumin seed, 1 tspn oil, 1/2 tspn turmeric and asafoetida powder with the dals and pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistle with some water.
- Once the pressure released, heat pan or kadai add 3 tspn oil, once oil has heated add mustard, curry leaves and dry chilli until splatter.
- Add shallots once it turned golden brown add other vegetables and fry for 3 mins. Then add salt, 1 1/2 tspn turmeric powder and 2 tblspn sambar powder fry for a min. Do not burn the masala. Note: Drumsticks, pumpkin, brinjal will be nice for sambar. I used lady's finger and Drumsticks this time.
- Smash cooked dal and add to the pan or kadai. Add some water and close with the lid. Let the vegetables half cook.
- Add tamarind water with the dal and let the vegetables cooks completely.
- Chk for salt and correct it. Finally add chopped coriander and little piece of jaggery at last and turn off the stove.
- This tasty sambar is suitable for rice, dosa, idly and vada.
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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