Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sambar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Sambar is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Sambar is something which I have loved my whole 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 particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sambar using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sambar:

1. Get 1 cup Toor Dal
2. Prepare 2 cups water
3. Prepare Lemon sized Tamarind
4. Take 2 tomatoes
5. Get 2 drumsticks
6. Prepare 1 Raw Banana
7. Make ready 2 Big onions or 15-20 Sambar Onions
8. Make ready 1 Big Madras Cucumber
9. Take 2 Big carrots
10. Make ready 10-15 Lady Fingers (optional)
11. Make ready Salt as per taste
12. Take 3 tsp Sambar Powder
13. Make ready 2 tsp Red chilli Powder
14. Get 3 sprigs Curry leaves
15. Take 2 tbsp oil
16. Take 1 tsp mustard
17. Take 1 tsp Jeera
18. Make ready 4-5 garlic pods
19. Take 1/4 tsp hing
20. Get 1/4 tsp turmeric
21. Get Water as required

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 clean toordal, put two cups of water and cook it in a cooker for 3 whistles
2. Keep vegetables ready and wash and peel as required
3. Cut vegetables in your desired shape.
4. Put a vessel on stove, pour 2tbsp oil. Add mustard and jeera, when they start splitting add hing and turmeric. Mix well. Put all the cut vegetables. Cut banana just before adding it to the remaining vegetables.
5. Add Salt and put 1 cup of water for the vegetables to cook. Add tomato after 5mins. Cover the vessel with a lid and cook the vegetables for 10 to 15mins
6. After 3 whistles, let the dal cool. Mash the dal
7. Soak tamarind in water to extract the pulp
8. Now add the cooked vegetables in the mashed dal and let the vegetables cook in the dal.
9. Mix well. Add tamarind pulp and water as required. Sprinkle curry leaves
10. Once sambar starts boiling, add sambar powder. Mix well.
11. Finally, add red chilli powder, mix well and take off the stove. Put a sprig of Curry leaves.
12. Serve with white 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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