Recipe: at dinner Sambar

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Sambar. Sambar recipe with step by step photos - Sambar is a South Indian lentil & mix vegetable stew that is eaten along with breakfast or meal as a side dish. Most people enjoy this with some hot Soft idli, dosa, Vada or with plain rice. Sambar is an everyday dish that is made in most south Indian homes.

The ingredients should be available at any Indian market or at specialty stores.

The tamarind pulp may be substituted with reconstituted tamarind paste.

Sambar is usually served with steamed rice as one of the main courses of both formal and everyday south Indian cuisine.

You can cook Sambar using 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sambar

  1. You need of Chopped onions, Tomatoes.

  2. It’s of Chopped French beans, yellow cucumber.

  3. You need of Chopped Baingan, capsicum.

  4. It’s of split pigeon peas(tur dal).

  5. You need of coriander seeds 1 tbsp Chana dal.

  6. It’s of methi seeds.

  7. You need of red chilies (kashmiri).

  8. You need of ghee or oil 1 sprig curry leaves ½ tsp cumin (or jeera).

A two-course meal of sambar mixed with rice and eaten with some sort of vegetable side dish, followed by yoghurt mixed with rice, is a southern Indian staple.

Populations have declined substantially due to severe hunting, insurgency, and industrial exploitation of habitat.

The name "sambar" is also sometimes used to refer to the Philippine deer, called the "Philippine.

Sambar is a South Indian staple dish which is served for all the meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Sambar step by step

  1. Add toor dal to a pressure cooker or pot..

  2. Pour 2 cups water and pressure cook on a medium heat for 2 to 4 whistles.

  3. The dal needs to be cooked till smooth…..

  4. Wash all the veggies.Chop them to 2 inch pieces..

  5. While the daal cooks, make the sambar powder. Dry roast red chilies, urad daal and chana daal until golden & crisp.. Add coriander seeds.

  6. Next add methi seeds.Pour 5 cups of water to a pot, add the chopped veggies and cook on a medium flame until soft…

  7. When the water turns slightly hot, transfer about ¼ cup hot water with a ladle to a separate bowl.

  8. When the pressure goes off, mash the dal to smooth. The dal needs to be very smooth otherwise it doesn’t taste good..

  9. When the vegetables are completely cooked, add sambhar powder, turmeric and salt. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes…

  10. Add smooth dal, mix well to blend the dal with water. Bring it to a boil. Check if there is enough salt.

  11. Heat another pan with oil or ghee add mustard, cumin and methi..

  12. Add curry leaves, broken red chilli. When the leaves turn crisp, off the heat add hing. You can also add 1/8 to 1/4 tsp of sambar powder to the hot pan.Mix daal or veggies.

  13. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes for the sambar to become flavorful.

  14. Serve with rice, idli, vada or dosa.

Use your favorite brand of sambar powder or make one at home (see recipe below).

Tamarind & Jaggery: these ingredients add the little tartness & sweetness to the sambar respectively.

Final Tadka: and a good tadka (tempering) at the end with mustard seeds, curry.

Sambar, brimful of the goodness of toovar dal and assorted vegetables.

South Indian Homemade Sambar Recipe is made daily in South Indian homes.