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Updated Mar 21, 2024
Ingredients
Ingredients
Serves 4
Serves 4
Sambar can be made with vegetables like ash guard, pumpkin, ladies finger (okra), drumsticks, seppan kizhangu (Chembu / Arbi). Any combination of two or more can be used. I have used Pumkin and ladies finger for making sambar in the below recipe.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Pumpkin (mathan): 1/4 kg
Ladies finger(Vendakkai/Okra ): 8 Nos.
Thur dal: 1/2 cup
Tamarind: small (lime size)
Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
Coriander seeds: 1tb spoon
Bengal gram (chanadal): 1/2tb spoon
Redchilli: 4 numbers
Asafoetida powder: 1/4 tsp
Grated coconut: 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Oil:3 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1tsp
Curry leaves: a few
Coriander leaves: a few
Preparation Method
Preparation Method
1. Pressure cook Thur Dal with enough water (1.5-2 cups of water for every 1/2 cup of Thur Dal) and a little Turmeric powder. .
Heat two tsp of oil in a small frying pan. Roast coriander seeds, chana Dal and dry red chilli. After it turns a little golden, add methi seeds and roast them till it becomes light brown in color. Grind this mixture with shredded coconut to make a smooth paste
2. Soak tamarind in one cup of water for fifteen minutes.
Wash and cut pumpkin and ladies finger (okra). Squeeze the soaked tamarind and extract the tamarind juice. Add the pumpkin pieces to the tamarind water. Add more water just to immerse the pumpkin pieces. Add turmeric powder, hing powder and salt to taste. Bring to boil.
3. When it starts boiling add ladies finger (okra) pieces. If you add okra in the beginning, it will become very mushy
4. When the vegetables cook, add pressure cooked tur dal. Boil for one minute. Then add the smooth coconut paste. Boil for another minute.
For Tadka: Heat one tsp of oil. Put mustard seeds. When they start spluttering, add curry leaves and cut red chilli.
Add the tadka and some fresh coriander leaves and sambhar is ready
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