Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, south indian vegetable sambar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
South Indian Vegetable Sambar is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. South Indian Vegetable Sambar is something that I have loved my whole life.
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. sambar recipe Sambar (a south indian vegetable stew) Sambar is one of those quintessential comfort foods for me. The first spoonful of the sweet and tangy stew, right from our worn pressure cooker instantly lifts my spirit.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook south indian vegetable sambar using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make South Indian Vegetable Sambar:
- Prepare 1 cup Pigeon Pea Lentils
- Take 1/2 cup Red Lentils or Masoor
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt
- Make ready 1 tbsp Kashmiri Red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- Take 2 tbsp Sambar powder
- Make ready 1 cup Brinjal cut lengthwise
- Take 1 cup Drumsticks cut into pieces
- Get 1/2 cup Carrots thinly cut
- Make ready 1 cup French Beans cut into long pieces
- Make ready 1 cup Okra cut into two each
- Take 10 Shallots
- Take 3 Tomatoes finely chopped
- Take FOR THE TEMPERING -
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp Oil
- Get 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- Get 1/8 tsp Asafoetida
- Take 3-4 Dry Red chillies
- Make ready 2 Sprigs Curry Leaves
- Make ready 2-3 Garlic cloves sliced
Mixed Vegetable Sambar recipe is a simple and quick method of making sambar in a single pot. The most important ingredient of making the sambar is the homemade sambar powder and every home and every kitchen in south india has a unique recipe of making the sambar powder. What is Sambar Sambar is a lentil and vegetable stew, most popular in South India. Even though I am not south Indian, I have always loved it as far as I can remember.
Steps to make South Indian Vegetable Sambar:
- Pressure cook dal along with little Salt added for about 5-6 whistles. Let the pressure settle down before opening the lid. Keep it aside until use. Soak Tamarind in enough water for about 15 minutes or so. Squeeze the juice out of it and keep aside.
- To a cooking pot, add chopped Vegetables along with Turmeric and Kashmiri Red Chilli powders. Add Tamarind juice and Sambar powder also. And addition of water depends accordingly. Therefore add it until the Veggies are soaked in it. Cover it and let that simmer on a low heat for about 15 minutes.
- After the Veggies are cooked well, stir in cooked Dal in it. See to it that the Veggies are not over cooked. Mix well and adjust the consistency by adding some hot water.
- After done, heat oil in a pan. Add Mustard Seeds and Curry Leaves. Also add dry Red Chillies and Garlic Cloves too. Add this tempering to the hot Sambar. Serve this quick Vegetable Sambar with Idlis, Dosas or even plain Rice.
So, I guess it's safe to say it's popular all across India. Sambar with rice is one of the main courses in everyday South Indian meals. Most South Indians are experts in making sambar. This post is for beginners who have difficulty in preparing sambar. Sambar can be made with a wide variety of vegetables.
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