Sambar is a commonly used dish in south India. Sambar is an important menu at home and also served during marriage feast.
Serves: Six
Cooking time: approximately 30 minutes
Ingredients
- Toor dal or yellow split peas – 1 cup
- Tamarind pulp or thick juice – 1 table spoon (or soak a small lemon size tamarind in ¼ cup of water for five minutes; squeeze and filter the juice)
- Drumstick : 8 to 10 pieces
- Sour Tomato – 1 no
- Onion – 1 no
- Curry leaves and coriander leaves – few
- Asafetida powder (hing) – ½ tea spoon
- Oil – 1 tea spoon
- Green chilli – 2 no
- Salt – according to taste
- Sambar powder – 2 tea spoon full or
- if you don’t have sambar powder, use items below
- Turmeric powder – ¼ tea spoon
- Red chilli powder - 1 tea spoon
- Coriander powder - 2 tea spoon full
- For seasoning
- Mustard, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds – ¼ tea spoon each
- Red chilli – 1 no
- curry leaves – few
Method
Step 1
- Boil toor dal with ¼ tea spoon turmeric powder and a few drops of oil in a pressure cooker.
- After cooling down, mash it and keep aside.
Step 2
- Chop drum stick,green chilli,onion,tomato and curry leaves.
- Take 2 cup of water, add chopped vegetable and other chopped items.
- Add sambar powder,salt,hing powder,and tamarind juice.
- Boil this till the vegetables are soft and if necessary add more water to cook.
- Now add mashed toor dal, cook for 5 minutes.
- Now give seasoning and serve hot.
Tips:
- Toor dal must be fully cooked and mashed.
- Toor dal can be soaked for 30 minutes before pressure cooking.
Sambar can also be made with anyone or in combinations of the vegetables like: brinjal, radish, ash guard, beans, carrot, capsicum, potato.
Suitable for Rice, Idli, Dosa, Vada.
Did you find this article useful? Please subscribe to our RSS Feed to receive all the FREE updates on various articles!
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
too good
thanks