Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sambar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sambar is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sambar is something which I have loved my entire life.
Lightly spiced lentils in a tamarind and coconut sauce, tempered with Indian spices. Try it with other vegetables too, such as potato, cauliflower or okra. The ingredients should be available at any Indian market or at specialty stores. Populations have declined substantially due to severe hunting, local insurgency, and industrial exploitation of habitat.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sambar using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sambar:
- Make ready 1/2 cup arhar dal
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 2 cups water
- Make ready 1/4 onion, chopped
- Get 1/2 tomato, chopped
- Get 1/2 lemon sized ball of tamarind
- Take 1/4 tsp sugar
- Take 1 green chilli, slit
- Get salt to taste
- Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 2 tsp sambar powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp oil or ghee
- Make ready 7-8 curry leaves
- Take 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Get 1 pinch hing
- Prepare 2 dry red chillies
This spice powder is the key to make a good sambar. A variety of spices & lentils are used to make this powder. Most traditional homes make their own sambhar masala or powder to suit their taste buds. Sambar is a South Indian lentil and vegetable stew made with pigeon pea lentils, tamarind and a unique spice blend called sambar powder.
Steps to make Sambar:
- Pressure cook the arhar dal adding turmeric, salt and enough water.
- Soak tamarind in warm water, set aside.
- In a pan, boil tamarind water, sugar,green chilli, salt and turmeric powder.
- Add the pressure cooked, mashed dal and sambar powder, bring to a boil.
- Give a tadka of mustard seeds, curry leaves, hing and red chillies. Pour on top of the boiling sambar.
- Take off heat and serve with idli, dosa, vada or rice.
Most traditional homes make their own sambhar masala or powder to suit their taste buds. Sambar is a South Indian lentil and vegetable stew made with pigeon pea lentils, tamarind and a unique spice blend called sambar powder. It is a staple dish in South Indian homes and is also equally popular and loved by many. Sambar is one of the most popular recipes from South India and it happens to be my favorite too. It is basically a spicy Lentil Stew with Mixed Vegetables that is served as a side dish with Dosa, Idli, Vada, or Rice.
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