Drumstick Sambar

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.