Vengaya sambar | Shallots Sambar | Onion Sambar [No Garlic recipe]

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 10 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Idli, Dosa, Rice, Chapathi | Type : Sambar, Gravy, kulambu, curry, masala.

Ingredients

• Sambar Onion [shallots, chinna vengayam] – 10 [peel the skin & wash]
• Toor dal – 1 cup
• Tomato -1 [chopped]
• Green chilli – 1
• Red chilli -1
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Coriander leaves – 2 springs [chopped]
• Tamarind water – 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Red chilli powder– ½ tsp
• Fenugreek powder- 1 tbsp [dry roast fenugreek seeds then grind]
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – ½ tbsp
• Jaggery – 1 tbsp [grated]
• Asafetida a pinch
• Salt to taste
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Water as needed

For roasting and grinding ingredients

• Sambar onion- 5
• Dry red chilli - 1
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Coriander seeds – 1 tbsp
• Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Heat oil in a pan, roast all ingredients then grind to fine paste with ¼ cup of water

Method

• Boil toor dal with turmeric powder in cooker for 3 whistles
• Heat pan with oil add mustard seeds, Bengal gram and urad dal. Then add onion sauté well. Add fenugreek powder sauté.
• Add green chilli and dry red chilli sauté then add curry leaves, tomato, and turmeric powder sauté till soft.
• Add ground paste and water mix well, let it boil.
• Add boiled toor dal, red chilli powder and tamarind water cook for 5 min. Then add jaggery and salt mix well cut off heat.
• Add chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with rice

Shallots-chinna vengayam

Shallots sambar