What is Sambhar?
Sambhar is a South Indian dish made with lenthils, mixed vegatables, tamarind, herbs, spices and special sambhar spice powder
This dish is enjoyed with idlis, dosas, rice and in many forms. In a south Indian family, sambhar is a daily meal eaten with rice and papadum ( papad)
I am Kerala, my kiddo loves sambhar . There are 2 ways of making sambhar one with coconut and one without coconut.
Let me share the recipe without coconut as lot of people don’t prefer much of coconut
INGREDIENTS – Sambhar
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 sambhar 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
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