Sambar
Sambar recipe in the indian category
Recipe ingredients:
- Tuvar dhal — 3/4 cup
- Vegetables — 3 cups (like sambar onions and white pumpkin)
- Tamarind — lemon size
- Coriander leaves — 2 tablespoons
- Curry leaves — 1 tablespoon
- Rasam powder — 2 teaspoon
- Salt — 1-3/4 teaspoon – 2 teaspoons
- Sugar — 1-1/2 teaspoon (optional)
- Turmeric powder — 1/4 teaspoon
- Green chillies — 2-4
- Oil — 1 tablespoon
- Red chilli — 1
- Mustard seeds — 1 teaspoon
- Black gram dhal — 1/2 teaspoon
- Hing powder — 1/4 teaspoon
Recipe method:
- Pressure cook dhal with one and a half cups of water for ten minutes. When cold mash well.
- Soak tamarind in one cup of water, for five minutes, squeeze well and strain out juice.
- Cook vegetables in one and a half cups of water.
- When threequarter cooked add slit green chillies, salt and sugar.
- Add tamarind water and simmer till raw smell disappears.
- Add mashed dhal, rasam powder and curry leaves. Simmer till thick, add coriander leaves.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, black gram dhal and red chilli.
- When mustard seeds splutter, add hing powder and pour the seasoning over the sambar.
- Serve sambar hot with rice and chips.
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