Recipe : Sambar
Ingredients
- Tuvar dhal - 3/4 cup
- Vegetables - 3 cups (like sambar onions, white
- pumpkin, chow-chow)
- Tamarind - lemon size
- Coriander leaves - 2 tablespoons
- Curry leaves - 1 tablespoon
- Rasam powder - 2 teaspoon
- Salt - 1-3/4 teaspoon - 2 teaspoons
- Sugar - 1-1/2 teaspoon (optional)
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
- Green chillies - 2-4.
- Seasoning
- Oil - 1 tablespoon
- Red chilli - 1
- Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
- Black gram dhal - 1/2 teaspoon
- Hing powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Method
Pressure cook dhal with one and a half cups of water for ten minutes.
When cold mash well.
Soak tamarind in one cup of water, for five minutes, squeeze well and strain out juice.
Cook vegetables in one and a half cups of water.
When threequarter cooked add slit green chillies, salt and sugar.
Add tamarind water and simmer till raw smell disappears.
Add mashed dhal, rasam powder and curry leaves.
Simmer till thick, add coriander leaves.
Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, black gram dhal and red chilli.
When mustard seeds splutter, add hing powder and pour the seasoning over the sambar.
Serve sambar hot with rice and chips.
Author :
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