Sambar Recipe-How to make Easy and Delicious Sambhar-Vegetable Sambar-Sambhar Recipe

Preparation time for sambar-45 minutes
Serving-5

Ingredients for sambar

• Toor/tuvar dal(washed)-150 gm
• Chopped bottle gourd (louki)-50 gm
• Chopped carrot-50 gm
• Asafoetida(hing)-1/4 tsp
• Chopped and peeled drumstick-50 gm
• Chopped green beans-25 gm
• Fenugreek seeds-1/3 tsp
• Chopped potato-1 (large)
• Chopped tomato-1 (large)
• Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
• Chopped onion-1 (large)
• Tamarind juice-1/3 cup
• Chopped garlic-8 to 10
• Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder-1 tsp
• Red chilli powder-1 tsp
• Sambar Masala powder-3 tsp
• Dry red chilli-2
• Curry leaves
• Salt to taste
• Cooking oil-2 tbsp

Method:

• Put the dal in pressure cooker pan, add 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and 2 glass of water.
• Close the lid and boil it for 4-5 whistles on medium flame.
• Turn off the flame and let the cooker cool down completely.
• Open the cooker, add all the chopped vegetables and one glass of water and stir it.
• Close the lid and boil it for 2 whistles on medium flame.
• Turn off the flame, once the cooker cool down then open it and stir it.
• Turn on the flame and put the cooker on gas stove, keep the flame on low.
• Add red chilli powder, sambar masala powder, tamarind juice and salt to taste.
• Stir it well, cover the cooker and cook it for 3-4 minutes on low flame without whistle.
• Turn off the flame and keep it aside the cooker samber.

Tadka or Tempering:

• Heat a tadka pan, add oil and let it heat properly.
• Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, hing, garlic, dry red chilli and curry leaves.
• fry it for few seconds and turn off the flame.
• Gently pour the tadka in cooked sambar, stir it and close the lid, keep it aside for 2-3 minutes.
• Sambar is ready to serve with plain rice, idli, dosa or vada.