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| Kerala Sambar |
Sambar is a very
popular dish in South Indian cuisine. It is served with steamed rice, idli, and
dosa. Sambar with rice is one of the main courses in everyday South Indian
meals. Sambar can be made with a wide variety of vegetables. Most commonly used
vegetables are brinjal, drumstick, pumpkin, radish, ladies finger, onion etc.
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Prep time - under 30 minutes.
Cook time - under 45 minutes.
Ingredients :
Toor dal - 1/2 cup.
Chana dal-1/4 cup.
Tamarind - small lemon sized.
Asafoetida -1 tsp.
Vegetables ( 1/2 Kg) like....
Onion -1, sliced long,
Carrot cubed - 1,
Potato cubed - 1,
Drumstick cut into 4" pieces,
Ladies finger - 4 cut to small pieces,
Tomato cubed - 1 cubed,
Banana - 1 cubed etc.
Coriander leaves.
Green chillies - 2 slits.
Red chilly powder - 2 tsp.
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp.
Sambar powder - 4 tsp.
Coriander powder - 2 tsp.
Salt as required.
Chana dal-1/4 cup.
Tamarind - small lemon sized.
Asafoetida -1 tsp.
Vegetables ( 1/2 Kg) like....
Onion -1, sliced long,
Carrot cubed - 1,
Potato cubed - 1,
Drumstick cut into 4" pieces,
Ladies finger - 4 cut to small pieces,
Tomato cubed - 1 cubed,
Banana - 1 cubed etc.
Coriander leaves.
Green chillies - 2 slits.
Red chilly powder - 2 tsp.
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp.
Sambar powder - 4 tsp.
Coriander powder - 2 tsp.
Salt as required.
For the seasoning
Mustard seeds -1 tsp
Hing - a generous pinch
Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
Whole red chilli - 2 nos.
Curry leaves – few
Oil- 1 table spoon.
Oil- 1 table spoon.
Method of Preparation:
Soak dal in hot water for 20 minutes and pressure cook it.
Soak tamarind in hot water and extract tamarind juice and discard the pulp.
Once the dal is well cooked, add vegetable, salt and turmeric powder.
Chop the vegetables and keep it aside. Slit the green chili into two pieces.
You can use any vegetables like beans, carrot, cauliflower, potato, brinjal, yam, drum stick, pumpkin, ash pumpkin, banana etc. Add vegetable into the cooked dhal. Allow it to boil.
Then add tamarind water, allow it to boil.
Take a pan and dry roast coriander powder, chilli powder, sambar powder and asafetida, until the row smell goes.
Mix it with the vegetable soup, we already prepared.
Then remove from heat.
In a pan heat oil, add mustard seed and fenugreek seed, stir until the mustard splutter. Then add red chilli, curry leaves and hing.
Now pour this over the simmering sambar.
Serve with Idalis, rice or dosa.
Tips for tasty sambar:
If your sambar is sour, then you have added more tamarind.
If it has raw flavor of sambar powder or tamarind, then you did not boil the tamarind water with sambar powder well.
You can adjust the consistency of sambar by adding a little water along with dal.
The taste of the sambar depends or varies according to the sambar powder used.
Soak dal in hot water for 20 minutes and pressure cook it.
Soak tamarind in hot water and extract tamarind juice and discard the pulp.
Once the dal is well cooked, add vegetable, salt and turmeric powder.
Chop the vegetables and keep it aside. Slit the green chili into two pieces.
You can use any vegetables like beans, carrot, cauliflower, potato, brinjal, yam, drum stick, pumpkin, ash pumpkin, banana etc. Add vegetable into the cooked dhal. Allow it to boil.
Then add tamarind water, allow it to boil.
Take a pan and dry roast coriander powder, chilli powder, sambar powder and asafetida, until the row smell goes.
Mix it with the vegetable soup, we already prepared.
Then remove from heat.
In a pan heat oil, add mustard seed and fenugreek seed, stir until the mustard splutter. Then add red chilli, curry leaves and hing.
Now pour this over the simmering sambar.
Serve with Idalis, rice or dosa.
Tips for tasty sambar:
If your sambar is sour, then you have added more tamarind.
If it has raw flavor of sambar powder or tamarind, then you did not boil the tamarind water with sambar powder well.
You can adjust the consistency of sambar by adding a little water along with dal.
The taste of the sambar depends or varies according to the sambar powder used.
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