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sambar recipe | south indian sambar recipe | vegetable sambar recipe

easy sambar recipe
Course Side Dish
Cuisine south indian
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 2 -3 servings
Author HEBBARS KITCHEN

Ingredients

for pressure cooking:

  • ½ cup toor dal
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 2 cups water

vegetables:

  • 10 drumstick pieces
  • ¼ onion cubed
  • ½ to mato roughly chopped
  • 7 pieces brinjal / eggplant
  • ½ carrot chopped
  • ½ potato chopped

other ingredients:

  • ½ lemon sized tamarind
  • 1 tsp jaggery or sugar
  • 2 green chilli slit
  • salt to taste
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 2 tsp sambar powder home made udupi style sambar powder

tempering ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp coconut oil / any cooking oil
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • ¾ tsp urad dal
  • few curry leaves
  • pinch of hing

Instructions

  • firstly, in a pressure cooker add ½ cup of toor dal with 2 cups of water. also add pinch of turmeric. pressure cook it for 5 whistles.
  • meanwhile, in a small bowl take small half lemon sized tamarind and soak in water.
  • also, prepare and chop veggies like carrot, eggplant, drumstick, onions and tomatoes.
  • now, in a large kadai take the tamarind water.
  • to that add 1 tsp of jaggery/sugar along with green chill, salt and turmeric powder.
  • furthermore, add all the chopped vegetables to same mixture.
  • meanwhile, once the dal is cooked mash it well.
  • after 10 minutes, the vegetables should be cooked properly.
  • now add the mashed toor dal and bring it to boil.
  • add 2 tsp of sambar powder.
  • mix the sambar powder and bring it to boil.
  • prepare the tempering by heating urad dal, mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves and red chillies.
  • add the tempering to the freshly prepared sambar.
  • finally, sambar is ready.