Sambhar

“Sambhar” recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Side Dish
Prep Time: 6-7 hour    | Cook time: 40 mins     | Serves: 2-3

Sambhar is a spicy variant of traditional dal and closely resembles to Rasam. Sambhar is prepared from toor dal which is accustomed to be served with dosa, vada or idli. Preparation of sabhar had been really easy and quick now since we get MTR or Tops Sambhar mix in market. All we need to do is add proportionate water and vegetables in it and then cook it as prescribed. But the taste we get when made with dal and other ingredients is very close to what we get in southern recipes. You require very less vegetables for making sambhar or it actually depends on your taste…any traditional South Indian meal is usually incomplete without this recipe...join me to prepare this interesting recipe.

 

Sambhar Ingredients:

1/2 cup toor dal or arhar dal (soaked for 6-7 hours)

1 tomato(finely chopped)

1 onion(finely chopped)

1potato (roughly chopped)

3-4 pieces brinjal

1 drumstick(roughly chopped)

2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon sambhar powder

1 teaspoon turmeric powder

½ teaspoon red chili powder

1 teaspoon ginger paste

2 green chili(finely chopped)

2-3 curry leave

Small size tamarind

Pinch of asafoetida

Tadka for sambhar Ingredients:

1 teaspoon mustard seeds

½ teaspoon cumin seeds

2-3 curry leave

2-3 red chili

1 teaspoon oil

                           

                     

Kitchen utensils required:

• 1 non-stick pan (I prefer: Vinod Zest Non- Stick Friendly Pan)

• 1 Spatula (I prefer: PINDIA Wooden Curved Spoons)
• 16 bowls (I prefer: Borosil Mixing Bowl)
• 1 Mixer-grinder( I prefer: Prestige Hero 550- Watt Mixer Grinder)
• 1 non-stick tava (I prefer: Vinod Cookware Dosa Tava)
• 1 Chopper (I prefer: Genius Nicer Dicer Plus Multi Chopper Vegetable Cutter Fruit slicer)
• 1 cooker (I prefer: Prestige Popular Aluminum Pressure Cooker, 3 Liters)

• 1 Water jug

                             Step by step procedure:

Step-1 Take large cooker. Heat it. Now add toor dal, water, turmeric powder, salt, tomato ,potato, brinjal, drumstick, onion. Now cover lid of cooker and cook dal and all vegitables for 2 minutes.

Step-2 Now add salt, sambhar powder, ginger paste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, asafetida, Tamarind, curry leave, green chilly and cook it for 6-7 weasels on low flame. Sambhar is ready. Now prepare tadka for sambhar.

Tadka for sambhar

Step-1 Heat non stick pan, add oil. When oil become hot then add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, red chilli and cook it for few seconds.

Step-2 Now add the tadka in sambhar.

Enjoy it with vada, dosa, idli or any south indian dish.

Tips:

• Don’t add too much water in sambhar.

• You can replace vegetable of your choice.

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