Published 13:00 IST, December 16th 2019

Here's an authentic recipe for South Indian Sambar that you can easily prepare at home

Sambar recipe | Sambar is one of the most famous traditional South Indian dishes. Read ahead to know how to make authentic South Indian sambar at home

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Sambar is one of most famous tritional South Indian dishes. dish is t only healthy and nutritious but also tastes delicious. Sambar is a lentil-based stew mixed with vegetable and tamarind juice. re are various s of sambar, including Udupi sambar, Arachuvitta sambar, Varutharacha sambar, and Idli sambar that are relished all over India. Re ahe to kw how to make auntic South Indian sambar at home:

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Recipe for South Indian sambar at home

Ingredients

For pressure cooking

  • ½ cup toor dal
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 2 cups of water

Vegetables

  • 10 drumstick pieces
  • ¼ cubed onion
  • ½ roughly chopped tomato
  • 7 pieces brinjal /eggplant
  • ½ chopped carrot 
  • ½ chopped potato

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Or ingredients

  • ½ lemon sized tamarind
  • 1 tsp jaggery or sugar
  • 2 green chillies
  • salt
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 2 tsp sambar powder

Tempering ingredients

  • 1 tbsp coconut oil / any cooking oil
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • ¾ tsp ur dal
  • few curry leaves
  • pinch of hing

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Recipe

  • First, d ½ cup of toor dal with 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker.
  • d a pinch of turmeric to it and pressure cook it for 5 whistles.
  • Meanwhile, take small half lemon sized tamarind and soak in water, in a small bowl.
  • Chop vegetables like carrot, eggplant, drumstick, onions and tomatoes, and keep m prepared.
  • w, in a large utensil, take tamarind water.
  • d 1 tsp of jaggery/sugar along with green chill, salt and turmeric powder to it.
  • Furr, d all chopped vegetables to same mixture.

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  • Once dal is cooked, mash it well.
  • vegetables should be cooked properly after about ten minutes.
  • w, d mashed toor dal and bring it to boil.
  • d 2 tsp of sambar powder.
  • Mix sambar powder and bring it to boil.
  • Prepare tempering by heating ur dal, mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves and red chillies.
  • d tempering to freshly prepared sambar.
  • sambar is rey to be served hot.

10:11 IST, December 16th 2019