Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sambar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. 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 foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Sambar is something which 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 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
- Make ready 1 cup Chopped onions, Tomatoes
- Make ready 1 cup Chopped French beans, yellow cucumber
- Get 1 Chopped Baingan, capsicum
- Take 3/4 cup split pigeon peas(tur dal)
- Make ready 1 tbsp coriander seeds 1 tbsp Chana dal
- Make ready 1/4-1/2 tsp methi seeds
- Take 4-5 red chilies (kashmiri)
- Take 2 tsp ghee or oil 1 sprig curry leaves ½ tsp cumin (or jeera)
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:
- Add toor dal to a pressure cooker or pot.
- Pour 2 cups water and pressure cook on a medium heat for 2 to 4 whistles
- The dal needs to be cooked till smooth….
- Wash all the veggies.Chop them to 2 inch pieces.
- While the daal cooks, make the sambar powder. Dry roast red chilies, urad daal and chana daal until golden & crisp.. Add coriander seeds
- Next add methi seeds.Pour 5 cups of water to a pot, add the chopped veggies and cook on a medium flame until soft..
- When the water turns slightly hot, transfer about ¼ cup hot water with a ladle to a separate bowl
- When the pressure goes off, mash the dal to smooth. The dal needs to be very smooth otherwise it doesn’t taste good.
- When the vegetables are completely cooked, add sambhar powder, turmeric and salt. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes..
- Add smooth dal, mix well to blend the dal with water. Bring it to a boil. Check if there is enough salt
- Heat another pan with oil or ghee add mustard, cumin and methi.
- Add curry leaves, broken red chilli. When the leaves turn crisp, off the heat add hing. You can also add 1/8 to 1/4 tsp of sambar powder to the hot pan.Mix daal or veggies
- Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes for the sambar to become flavorful
- Serve with rice, idli, vada or dosa
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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