Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sambar. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sambar - south Indian lentil stew made with vegetables, lentils and a special blend of spices. Unfortunately, most of the restaurants here make really bad sambar. Sambar recipe with step by step photos.

Sambar is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Sambar is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sambar using 23 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sambar:

1. Take 2 cups tuvar dal
2. Make ready 2 tbsp tamarind paste
3. Get as per taste Salt
4. Make ready 2 tbsp corrainder leaves
5. Get 1 tsp turmeric
6. Get For Vegetables–
7. Make ready 2 medium sized onion chopped
8. Prepare 2 big drumsticks
9. Get 2 carrot finely chopped
10. Prepare 2 tomatoes finely chopped
11. Make ready 2 tbsp ready made sambar powder
12. Make ready 2 garlic cloves/ Ginger garlic paste
13. Make ready For tempering–
14. Get 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
15. Make ready 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
16. Prepare 1/2 tsp curry leaves
17. Make ready 2 Dry red chillies
18. Get Pinch hing
19. Take Pinch methi
20. Make ready 2 tbsp oil
21. Get 2 tbsp dry chilli powder
22. Make ready 1 tbsp corrainder powder
23. Take as required Water

Sambar is a traditional South Indian stew that goes well with idli, dosa, steamed rice or can be served as a soup. Any South Indian meal, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner, would be considered incomplete without Sambhar or one of its variants. 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. A few years back Sambar used to be defined as South Indian delicacy, confined only to the Southern states of India.

Steps to make Sambar:

1. Wash and soak dal for 30 mins. After that add it in pressure cooker adding little chopped onion,1 garlic cloves little chopped tomato pinch turmeric salt and cook upto 3 whistle. It should cooked smooth
2. Take a pan or kadai add oil to heat. Once heat add cumin seeds mustard seeds hing curry leaves dry chilli methi. Once fragrant release add chopped onion.once it gets transculent add chopped tomatoes ginger garlic paste and saute. Now add all cut veggies and saute for 2 mins mix everything.add dry masala sambar masala and mix everything add little water
3. Mix vegetables and cook for some time. Once it get cooked pour vegetable mix in dal and mix it. Add tamarind paste and little jaggery cover the lid. Add water accordingly as per requirement. Sambar should be little thick. Pour little ghee with a spoon around it.
4. Once get cooked garnish with corrainder leaves and serve it in serving bowl
5. Note- I have used readymade sambar masala packet. U can make it at home also. I will share recipe in next page.

I have used homemade sambar powder to make sambar recipe. But store-bought powder will work Wash and chop all the veggies you want to add to the sambar. I have used carrots, baingan (small. Sambar recipe - This is simple and basic south Indian sambar recipe. It is the part of their everyday meal for most of households in South Indian Here I have used homemade sambar masala powder.

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