Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sambar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sambar is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sambar is something that I have loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sambar using 24 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sambar:

1. Get 1/2 cup Toor dal
2. Make ready As needed Vegetables - [cucumber, pumpkin, carrot, pearl onion, potato, tomato, chembu, chakka kuru, drumstick] or as your preference
3. Take 2 Green chilli
4. Get 1 strands Curryleaves
5. Make ready 1 tbsp Salt
6. Make ready 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
7. Take 1 tsp Jaggery
8. Get 1/4 tsp Asafeotida
9. Take to taste lemon
10. Prepare For Masala
11. Get 1 1/2 tbsp Coriander seeds
12. Make ready 1/2 tbsp Chana dal
13. Prepare 1/2 tbsp Toor dal
14. Get 1/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds
15. Make ready 4-5 Red chilli
16. Make ready 4-5 Curry leaves
17. Get 2 pinch Asafoetida
18. Prepare 1 tbsp Grated coconut
19. Prepare For seasoning
20. Take 1 tsp Coconut oil
21. Take 1 tsp Mustard seeds
22. Take 1/2 tsp Urad dal
23. Take 1 Red chilli
24. Make ready 4-5 Curry leaves

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.

Instructions to make Sambar:

1. Cook the toor dal in a pressure cooker, mash it and keep aside.
2. Heat 1 tsp of coconut oil in a pan and saute all the dry ingredients(for masala) except grated coconut until light brown/ nice aroma comes.
3. Grind it to a fine paste using grated coconut.
4. In heavy bottom vessel, add the vegetables, cooked dal, green chilli, curry leaves, salt, turmeric powder and masala paste.
5. Cover and cook it until the vegetables get half cooked.
6. Add tamarind extract, jaggery, and hing.
7. Cook it for another 5 to 8 mins. Switch off the flame.
8. In another pan heat oil and add all the seasoning ingredients. Let it simmer till they begin to crackle.
9. Then mix these seasoning ingredients and some coriander leaves in the sambar and serve hot with rice.

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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