Sambar Recipe
Preparation Time: 40-45 Minutes
Serves: 3-4 Persons
Ingredients:-
- Tuvar dal – 1 cup
- Brinjal – 1 small (optional)
- Potato – 1
- Onion – 1
- Tomato – 1
- Drumstick – 2
- Sambar masala powder – 1 tbsp
- Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
- Oil – for tempering
- Red chilies – 1 to 2 (whole dry)
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tsp (optional)
- Curry leaves – a few
- Tamarind – 1 tbsp (soaked in warm water)
- Salt to taste
Method:-
- Wash the dal and boil it in the cooker with the turmeric powder, salt and a little oil.
- Cut all the vegetables into small pieces and chop the onion into medium sized pieces.
- In a pan, heat 1 tbsp oil and add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds.
- When they splutter, add all the vegetables, red chilies, leaves and sambar masala.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes.
- In the meantime beat the cooked dal properly and evenly.
- Now add the cooked dal (you may add some water if the dal is too thick).
- Strain the water in which the tamarind is soaked.
- Boil the sambar for 5-10 minutes.
- Serve hot with dosa or boiled rice.
