Mixed vegetable sambar

 

PREP TIME

15 mins

COOK TIME

25 mins

TOTAL TIME

40 mins

Serves: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup moong dal
• 1/2 cup toor dal
• 21/2 cup water to boil dal
• 1 inch seedless tamarind
• 2 tsp Jaggery
• 4 tsp MTR sambar powder
• 1tsp Red chilly powder
• Salt per taste
• 1 big chopped Onion
• 6 cloves of Garlic
• Grated coconut
• Few springs chopped Cilantro
• 2 cups chopped Vegetables 
• Bhindi
• Carrot
• Beans
• Peas
• Tomato
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder
• Asafoetida 
• 4 tsp Ghee
• 2 tsp Jeera
• 2 tsp mustard seeds

Instructions

Preparation before making Sambar

1. Boiling dal and vegetables
• Wash the dal and add 21/2 cup water
• Chop vegetables and onion into cubes
• Steam beans, carrot and peas with the dal. Do not steam bhindi
• Pressure cook the dal and vegetable until dal is super soft
2. Soak the Tamarind in warm water
3. Masala: Grind the coconut and garlic to smooth paste with little water
4. Making the sambar
• Take a kadhai/thick bottom deep pan
• Heat ghee
• Add mustard seeds and allow to splutter
• Now add Jeera
• Then add Asafoetida and turmeric powder
• Add chopped onion and cook until golden brown
• Once done add chopped tomatoes and cook until soft
• Add chopped bhindi and cook well until soft
• Now add red chilly powder and MTR sambar powder. Cook until oil separates out
• Squeeze the tamarind pulp from the soaked tamarind and add to the dal and mix well
• Add the dal and vegetables to the tadka above. Mix well
• Now add salt and Jaggery and mix well again. Allow to boil
• Once boiled add the masala we made above.
• Add chopped cilantro and let it boil for good amount of time on low flame. The more we boil, the taste is better
• Serve with idli, Dosa or rice with ghee. Yumm!

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