Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sambar. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Sambar is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Sambar is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are 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 must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sambar using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
- Prepare 1 cup Toor Dal
- Make ready 2 cups water
- Prepare Lemon sized Tamarind
- Take 2 tomatoes
- Take 2 drumsticks
- Take 1 Raw Banana
- Take 2 Big onions or 15-20 Sambar Onions
- Make ready 1 Big Madras Cucumber
- Make ready 2 Big carrots
- Get 10-15 Lady Fingers (optional)
- Make ready Salt as per taste
- Prepare 3 tsp Sambar Powder
- Prepare 2 tsp Red chilli Powder
- Prepare 3 sprigs Curry leaves
- Take 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard
- Get 1 tsp Jeera
- Take 4-5 garlic pods
- Get 1/4 tsp hing
- Get 1/4 tsp turmeric
- Take Water as required
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.
Instructions to make Sambar:
- Wash and clean toordal, put two cups of water and cook it in a cooker for 3 whistles
- Keep vegetables ready and wash and peel as required
- Cut vegetables in your desired shape.
- Put a vessel on stove, pour 2tbsp oil. Add mustard and jeera, when they start splitting add hing and turmeric. Mix well. Put all the cut vegetables. Cut banana just before adding it to the remaining vegetables.
- Add Salt and put 1 cup of water for the vegetables to cook. Add tomato after 5mins. Cover the vessel with a lid and cook the vegetables for 10 to 15mins
- After 3 whistles, let the dal cool. Mash the dal
- Soak tamarind in water to extract the pulp
- Now add the cooked vegetables in the mashed dal and let the vegetables cook in the dal.
- Mix well. Add tamarind pulp and water as required. Sprinkle curry leaves
- Once sambar starts boiling, add sambar powder. Mix well.
- Finally, add red chilli powder, mix well and take off the stove. Put a sprig of Curry leaves.
- Serve with white 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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