ash gourd sambar recipe | kumblakai koddel or sambar recipe
easy ash gourd sambar recipe | kumblakai koddel or sambar recipe
Servings 3 Servings
Ingredients
- ½ kg ash gourd / winter melon / budhu kumbalakai / pumpkin
- 1 cup tamarind extract
- ½ tsp turmeric powder / haldi
- 1 tsp jaggery / gud / bella
- salt to taste
- few curry leaves
- 1 cup toor dal cooked
- 3 tsp sambar powder
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped
for tempering:
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds / rai
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- few curry leaves
Instructions
- firstly, peel the skin of kumblakai and cut them into pieces. the skin can be used to prepare kumblakai sippe chutney.
- now boil them with a cup of tamarind extract.
- also add in ½ tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp jaggery, salt to taste and few curry leaves.
- cover and boil for 10 minutes or till ash gourd cooks well.
- now add in 1 cup cooked toor dal.
- adjust consistency and boil for 2 minutes.
- now add 3 tsp sambar powder. mix and simmer for a minute. do not over boil it.
- meanwhile prepare the tempering by heating oil.
- further add 1 tsp mustard seeds, pinch of hing and few curry leaves.
- allow the tempering to splutter and pour over sambar.
- also add in coriander leaves and mix well.
- finally, serve ash gourd sambar along with hot steamed rice.