Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going 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 appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sambar is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook sambar using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
- Get 1 cup toor dal
- Make ready 2 tomatoes
- Prepare 4 onions
- Make ready as required Veggies of your choice.(Optional) I used only drumsticks 1 big
- Take as per taste Salt
- Make ready 2 tbsp sambar masala
- Prepare 1 tsp chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1 lemon / 1 tbsp tamrind pulp
- Make ready 8-10 curry leaves
- Get For tempering-
- Get as required Oil
- Make ready pinch Hing
- Get some 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.
Instructions to make Sambar:
- In a pressure cooker add washed toor dal, tomatoes,onions and salt to taste and cook to 4-5 whistles.
- Once the pressure settles, blend the dal using blender.
- Now, add all the spices, lemon juice and boil on low flame for 15-20 mins. Add water to adjust the consistency.
- When done, heat oil in a small pan, add mustard seeds, a pinch of hing and add to dal.
- If adding veggies, chop and boil seperately. Add before tempering.at step 3.
- Serve hot.
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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