Recipe: Tasty Udupi Sambar

Recipe: Tasty Udupi Sambar Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Udupi Sambar. Udupi sambar Recipe with step by step photos. Udupi sambar is a lightly sweet, semi spiced, tangy and a flavorful sambar made with pigeon pea lentils and mixed vegetables. Vegan recipe. sambar recipes plays a vital role in south indian diet, as rice is our staple food. this has certainly lead to variety of sambar recipes depending upon the region and locally available ingredients. one such variety is potato onion sambar prepared in udupi style. udupi is a small town in south west coastal part of india. being a coastal place, coconut is abundantly available and hence it is.
The main uniqueness of Udipi Sambar(Udupi Sambar) is the sweetness.
Udupi type sambar is mostly similar to our Tamilnadu Sambar but with the extra flavor of jaggery.
Once I went to Udupi Krishnar temple and during the bojan time, they served this delicious sambar.
You can cook Udupi Sambar using 39 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Udupi Sambar
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You need of grated Jaggery.
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Prepare of Oil.
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It’s of Curry Leaves.
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Prepare of chopped Coriander leaves.
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You need of Green Chillies slit.
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Prepare of chopped Tomatoes.
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You need of Tamarind pulp.
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You need of Turmeric.
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You need of sambar Onions peeled.
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It’s of Salt.
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It’s of For pressure cooker:.
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You need of Toor Dal.
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You need of Water.
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It’s of Turmeric.
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You need of For Sambar Masala:.
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You need of dry red chillies.
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You need of Fenugreek Seeds.
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You need of grated Coconut.
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You need of coriander seeds.
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It’s of Cumin seeds.
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You need of chana Dal.
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Prepare of urad Dal.
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It’s of Oil.
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You need of Vegetables:.
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Prepare of Potato cubed.
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Prepare of Carrot cubed.
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It’s of beans chopped.
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Prepare of yellow Cucumber cubed.
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Prepare of small brinjals chopped.
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Prepare of ladies finger chopped.
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You need of cubed Pumpkin.
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You need of For Seasoning.
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It’s of Ghee.
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You need of Mustard Seeds.
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You need of Hing.
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Prepare of dry red chillies.
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Prepare of urad Dal.
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It’s of Cumin seeds.
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Prepare of Curry Leaves.
This sambar goes well with rice, dosa and also for other South Indian Breakfast.
This is the recipe served in the famed Udipi restaurants (the exponents of Mangalorean cuisine worldwide) with dosas and idlis.
Posted specially for a friend on request :)You do not need sambar powder with this recipe.
Omit whichever veges you cannot find.
Udupi Sambar step by step
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Pressure cook dal with water and turmeric until completely soft. Mash dal. Keep aside.
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In a pan, heat oil and roast all spices and coconut as mentioned under sambar masala section until brown. Allow to cool completely. Add sufficient water and grind to form paste. Keep aside.
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In a separate big pan, heat 2 tbsp oil, fry onions, curry leaves,green chilies. Add tomatoes and fry. Add all veggies, turmeric and roast for 5 minutes until raw smell goes away. Add salt, water, cover and cook for 10 minutes until veggies are tender. Add the ground paste to veggies. Mix well.
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Add tamarind pulp, dal and jaggery. Mix well. Now simmer and allow to cook for 15 minutes.
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Now heat ghee and splutter mustard seeds. Add urad dal, jeera,hing, dry red chillies. Once urad dal browns, add curry leaves. Switch off.
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Add seasoning to sambar. Mix well. Add coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice, dosa, idli Vada etc.
You can make this without veges too :) Cooking and preparation time approx.
Jaggery is a very important ingredient in Udupi Sambar.
The sweet and spicy and sour and a lot of flavours make for the delicious taste of the sambar.
Add in the ground sambar masala paste.
Add half a cup of water to clean the mixie jar and add the water back to the pan.