Sambar - 199 Calories in 1 cup-How to make-Step by step photos & Video[Filmed in village]

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 20 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Rice | Type: Lunch Gravy

Ingredients

• Tamarind – 1 gooseberry size [soak tamarind in warm water for 5 min then squeeze & Extract tamarind water]
• Toor dal - 1 cup
• Tomato - 1 [chopped]
• Carrot, potato, eggplant, drumstick, beans – 1 cup [chopped]
• Curry Leaves – 1 spring
• Coriander leaves – 1 spring [chopped]
• Dry red chilli – 1
• Green chilli – 1 [slit]
• Sambar onions [shallots] - 5
• Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
• Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
• Coriander powder – ½ tbsp
• Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
• Bengal gram – ½ tbsp
• Urad dal – ½ tbsp
• Jaggery – ½ tbsp [grated]
• Asafetida – ¼ tsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed

To be ground

• Fenugreek – ½ tbsp [dry roast & grind to fine powder]
• Bengal gram – 2 tbsp
• Urad Dal – 2 tbsp
• Coriander seeds – 2 tbsp
• Dry Red chilli - 1
• Coconut - 1 tbsp [grated]
• Heat oil in a pan roast above mentioned ingredients and grind with 4 tbsp of water & keep it aside.

Preparation

• Parboil vegetables.
• Wash & boil toor dal with turmeric powder for 4 whistles.
• Heat pan with oil then add mustard seeds. Once it’s spluttered add Bengal gram, urad dal sauté then add onion sauté till soft.
• Add asafetida, fenugreek powder, dry red chilli, green chilli and curry leaves gently saute. Then add tomato sauté till soft.
• Add parboiled vegetables sauté then add salt, red chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder mix well & sauté for a min.
• Then add ground paste mix well. Then add water let it boil.
• Then add boiled toor dal and tamarind water mix well & let it boil.
• Add grated jaggery & salt mix well. Then cut off heat. Sprinkle coriander leaves & serve hot with rice, dosa or idli.

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How To Make Sambar - Step by Step Photos

Boil vegetables[Eggplant, drumstick, carrot, beans, potato, raddish]

Dry roast 1 tbsp of fenugreek then cool it & grind

Fenugreek powder-After grind

Dry roast cumin & coriander seeds, cool it then grind to fine powder

Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan then roast dry red chilli, coriander, cumin seeds, coconut, bengal gram & urad dal then put it in a mixer jar or stone mortar, grind with 1/2 cup of water

After grinding

Pressure cook toor dal for 4 whistles

Perfectly boiled vegetables

Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds, bengal gram, urad dal saute. Then add sambar onion saute till raw smell out & light brown

Add garlic, green chilli, dry red chilli, curry leaves saute

Add fenugreek powder saute

Add chopped tomato saute till soft

Add boiled vegs, turmeric, red chilli powder & salt saute

Add boiled toor dal mix well

Add tamarind water mix well & let it boil

Add freshly ground paste mix well & let it boil

Add cumin & coriander powder

Add grated jaggery-Final stage

Add chopped coriander leaves & cut off heat

Sambar is ready, serve hot with rice

Note

• Sambar can be prepared without vegetables.
  

Tip

• Appadam is the best side dish.

How this Sambar receipe is unique?

• Instead of sambar powder fresh ground ingredients used.

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