Recipe: Perfect Sambar with idli or rice

Recipe: Perfect Sambar with idli or rice Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Sambar with idli or rice. Sambar, a hot and spicy lentil soup with mixed vegetables, is a must have accompaniment for popular South Indian breakfast and lunch recipes like Idli, Dosa, Medu Vada, Steamed Rice etc. When we serve Sambar recipe with steamed rice, Dosa, Idli, and Vada it becomes a complete diet. This Lentil and vegetables strew though has a South Indian origin.

Though Sambar is served as a side dish with these recipes.

Sambar - south Indian lentil stew made with vegetables, lentils and a special blend of spices.

It's best enjoyed with rice, idli or dosa.

You can cook Sambar with idli or rice using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sambar with idli or rice

1. Prepare 1 of lauki.

2. Prepare 1 of brinjal chopped.

3. It’s 1 bowl of tomato puree.

4. Prepare 1 bowl of onion puree.

5. It’s As needed of water.

6. You need 7-8 cloves of garlic.

7. It’s 2 of tomato.

8. It’s 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds.

9. You need 1/2 tsp of Red chilli powder.

10. Prepare To taste of salt.

11. Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmric powder.

12. Prepare 2 tsp of sambar masala.

13. Prepare As needed of oil.

Don't let the list of ingredients intimidate you, it's actually easy to put together!

Mangalore style (Karnataka style) cucumber sambar is a popular variety in South Indian sambar recipes.

This is a much simple and easy version of cucumber sambar or vellarikka sambar that you can make quickly and easily and makes an easy, delicious side dish with rice, dosa and idli for a simple and easy breakfast, lunch or dinner. idli sambar also known as tiffin sambar is a healthy & delicious mix vegetable dal soup served with South Indian breakfast foods.

This idli sambar is a super fast recipe that uses only quick cook veggies.

Sambar with idli or rice step by step

1. Take the pressure cooker add water and all vegetables,salt and cook it..

2. Take the fry pan and heat the oil and add mustard seeds and garlic and soute it..

3. Now add the onion puree and tomato puree and soute it..

4. Now add salt, red chilli powder, sambhar masala and mix well..

5. Now add the mixture in it and mix well and cook it for 2-3 minutes..

6. Sambhar is ready and serve it with rice or idli..

It is very delicious and can be served with idli, dosa, vada, pongal and even with rice.

It was a good side dish for idli,dosa & tiffin varieties like pongal,upma and it was also a good accompaniment for plain rice.

We loved this sambar very much.

The highlight of this recipe is that the spice powders are roasted and mixed with the sambar at the end.

It gives a superb flavor to the sambar and tastes more like hotel ones.