Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sambar. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sambar is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Sambar is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sambar using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
- Take 1/4 cup Pigeon Pea
- Prepare 1 Cup Mix Vegetables (carrot, drumstick,onion,tomato,brinjal etc)
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 cup Tamarind extract
- Prepare 2 tbsp Sambhar Powder
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Get 1 tbsp Oil
- Prepare 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- Get 1 pinch Asafoetida
- Make ready 1 tsp curry leaves
- Get 1 tsp Coriander 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:
- Wash and pressure cook the pigeon pea for 3-4 minutes. Wash and cut the Vegetables as your preference and it to the cooked dal with salt and turmeric. Add 1/4 cup of water and cook again for one whistle. Release the pressure immediately so that the veggies do not get mushy.
- Add the tamarind extract and let it boil. In a small bowl add the sambar powder and little water and mix well. Pour this to the dal and veggie mix and allow to boil for 5 minutes. Add curry leaves and coriander leaves. Switch off the flame. Check the seasonings and adjust the taste.
- Heat a small pan with oil and spluter mustard, dry red chillies, asafoetida and curry leaves. Pour this to the Sambar and serve hot with Idli, Dosa or 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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