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Sambar

Posted April 15th, 2007 by gayatri

Summary

Yield
Prep Time15 minutes

Description

This is the recipe of sambar which is cooked in many forms across the India and more specifically southern India. This is a combination that I like.

Ingredients

  • 300 g assorted vegetables (brinjal, bottlegourd, carrot, radish)
  • 1 t each of (cumin seeds, sambar powder, turmeric, salt)
  • 1 T refined oil
  • 75 g onion
  • 100 g tomato
  • 1 sli ginger
  • 200 g tuar (arhar) dal
  • 10 curry leaves
  • 2 cinamon sticks
  • 3 bay leaves

Instructions

Sambar is one of the complicated things and it has varying tastes across India. This is one version that I make and I like it. So here it goes.

  1. Slice the tomatos and onion
  2. Slice all the vegetables
  3. Clean and wash the dal
  4. Put the oil in pressure cooker and heat it
  5. Once the oil is hot, add cumin seeds, cinamon sticks, bay leaf, curry leaves
  6. Once cumin seeds turn brownish, add onion, ginger, and tomato
  7. Cook till tomatos are cooked, add rest of the vegetables
  8. Cover the cooker for half a minute and let these cook
  9. Add sambar powder, turmeric and salt
  10. Mix it well and then add tuar dal
  11. Mix it well and add water. Water quantity should be such that all the contents are submerged
  12. Close the cooker and put the weight on
  13. Once the pressure builds up, reduce the flame and let it cook for 20 minutes.
  14. After 20 minutes, let the cooker cool down.

Sambar can be served with many south indian dishes or just eaten with rice.

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