Tamilnadu Hotel Idli Sambar

Cuisine Style: Tamilnadu | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Idli, Dosa | Type: Breakfast Gravy

Though everyone hates hotel food some times we like it. I had lot of queries about Hotel Idli sambar. After research at home I found the Hotel Sambar recipe. Yes, it tastes like Hotel Idli sambar. Why dont you try?

Ingredients

• Toor Dal -1 Cup
• Moong Dal - 1/2 cup
• Carrot-1/2 cup (Any vegetable at your choice)
• Tomatos - 3 (Medium)
• Asafoetida - a Pinch
• Onion (small) - 10 (whole)
• Jaggery -10 grams
• Turmueric - tsp
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Coriander Leaves
• Salt to taste
• Oil as needed

For seasoning

• Mustard Seed-1 tsp
• Urad Dhal - 1 tsp
• Bengal Gram - 1 tbsp

For Grinding 1

• Fenugreek - 2 tsp
• Jeera - 2 tsp
  

For Grinding 2

• Bengal Gram - 1 tbsp
• Coriander Seed- 2 tbsp
• Red Chilly-1
• (Tastes good when manual grinding)

Preparation

• Boil Toor dal and moong dal together in a pressure cooker (add pinch of turmueric and castar oil before boil) and once done smash and keep aside.
• Dry roast Coriander Seed, Fenugreek and Jeera and grind to fine powder and keept it aside
• Dry roast Bengal Gram, Coriander Seed, Red Chilly and grind to fine paste (add water to make fine paste while grinding)
• Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and put onions and fry till the raw smell goes off.
• Then sprinke the Grinding 1 powder over the onion.
• Sprinke Asafoetida and mix well.
• Add chopped tomatoes and fry for 2 minutes.
• Then put diced carrots and diced vegetable fry for 3 minutes.
• Pour smahsed (gravy state add water accordingly) Toor dal and Moong dal into the pan.
• Put the the Grinding 2 into the sambar and mix well.
• Cook for 5 minutes.
• Then add Jaggery to the samabr while boiling then stir well.
• In a separate pan heat oil and put mustard seed, curry leaves, slit green chilli and wait to splutter.
• Transfer the samber to this pan.
• Decorate with finely chopped coriander leaves once done

Note

• If you are unable to grind the ingredients in the mixie as low in quantity use ammi (manual stone grinder)

Tip

• This Hotel Sambar can be done without carrot or vegetables

How this hotel idli sambar recipe is Unique?

• The fresh Ground 2 ingredients(Fenugreek,Jeera) gives the fresh taste.

Hotel idli sambar

Instant samabr for idli, dosa, or uthappam

Samabr without vegetables