Sambhar
Everbody loves idli and dosa but a good sambar and chutney makes all the difference. Sambar is a lentil and vegetable stew, most popular in South India. Sambhar can be eaten with rice, chapati, idli and dosa.
Ingredients
- ½ Cup pigeon peas arhar dal, toor dal
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric / haldi
- 1 ½ cup water or as reqd
- 1 tablespoon tamarind
- ½ cup hot water
Vegetables:
- 20 grams pumpkin,
- 20 grams French beans
- 20 grams potatoes,
- 20 grams okra
- 20 grams brinjals
- 2 drumsticks scraped and chopped
- 6 -7 small onions sambhar or normal onions sliced
- 1 medium tomato chopped
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ½ teaspoon Kashmiri red chili powder
- 1 tsp salt or as to taste
- water as required
- 2 tablespoon oil refined/sesame, coconut or what ever you deem fit.
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1-2 red chili dry
- 7-8 curry leaves
- 1 pinch asafetida
- 1/4 teaspoon fenugreek seeds / methi dana
- 1 teaspoon coriander leaves to garnish
Sambhar Powder :
- 1 tablespoon chana dal
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 2 dried red chilies or more to taste
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 clove
Instructions
- Soak tamarind in water for 30 minutes
- Rinse dal, drain water and add dal in a pressure cooker, Add turmeric and water and pressure for 10-12 minutes or 7-8 whistles on medium flame.
- Let the pressure cooker cool. Open the cooker, dal should be cooked and it should be mushy.
- Mash dal. and keep aside.
- Meanwhile rinse all the vegetable.
- Add all the vegetable with onion, tomato in a pan. Put the pan on medium flame
- Add haldi, red chilies powder and salt as per taste. Add 2 cups of water. mix well.
- Cook the vegetable till done.
- Add tamarind pulp and sambhar powder. Mix well
- Add mashed dals, mix well.
- simmer on medium low flame and bring to boil.
- put off the stove as soon as the dal is on boil.
- Heat oil and add mustard seeds and let it crackle.
- Add dry red chilies, curry leaves, fenugreek leaves and hing
- fry till the red chilie change color
- add this to sambhar dal.
- Cover the lid to infuse the tadka with dal.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with chapati, naan, rice or idli, dosa.
Sambhar Powder :
- Heat a pan and add all masala for sambhar powder and heat for 1 minute. Grind these masala in a grinder.
Notes
Optional : You can use readymade sambhar masala or can make your own.
Nutrition
Calories: 205kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 10gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0.04gCholesterol: 35mgSodium: 641mgPotassium: 393mgFiber: 5gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 851IUVitamin C: 44mgCalcium: 65mgIron: 2mg
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