MIXED VEGETABLE SAMBAR

 

INGREDIENTS:

Tur dal - 1/3 cup

Tamarind - small lemon or gooseberry sized ball

Mixed Vegetables - 1 cup

 Sambar Powder- 2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Salt as required

Mustard seeds -1 tsp
Hing - a generous pinch
Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
Red Chilli - 1

Curry leaves - few

Big Onion-1(Finely chopped)

PRELIMINARY PROCESS:

Soak dal in hot water for 20 minutes and pressure cook for 3 whistles.

Soak tamarind in hot water and extract 1 1/2 cups of tamarind juice and discard the pulp.

You can use any vegetables like beans, carrot, cauliflower, potato,brinjal, broad beans (avarakkai),  but do not add too many vegetables, then you will end up having more vegetables and very less sambar. So use just 1 cup of mixed vegetables.

I used 1/2 a carrot, 1 small potato, 2 florets cauliflower, 2 broad beans and 3-4 beans.In case, if you are using cauliflower, do not pressure cook but blanch them in hot water and add to the sambar while adding dal or paruppu.

PREPARATION METHOD:

 Heat a tbsp of oil  add mustard seeds when it splutters,add hing,red chilly,fenugreek seeds,curry leafs,chopped onion and saute for few minutes.Then add tamarind water,turmeric powder,salt,sambar powder.Let it boil until the raw smell goes.

In mean time keep vegetables and dhal in two different vessels and let it boil in a cooker.after the raw smell of tamarind has gone,add boiled vegetables in that.

Mash dhal using blender or masher and add it along with some water to sambar.let it boil for few minutes and serve it .

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METHI SAMBAR

MANGO SAMBAR

ARACHIVITTA SAMBAR

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DRUMSTICK(MURUNGAI) SAMBAR

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