Sambar Recipe | How to make Sambar Recipe | (Sambar for Rice)

Hi friends, thank you all for visiting my website and @EATeasyvegrecipes youtube hannel. Today's recipe is Sambar for rice. Sambar is the most important side dish in South Indian cuisine. Sambar is a lentil based stew cooked with toor dal or pigeon pea and tamarind broth. Vegetables are added of our choice. A typical South Indian sambar have only one vegetable like Carrot, drumstick, bottle gourd and onions. Some parts Andhra people add multiple vegetables and make it like that of mixed vegetable. Sambar is made in two different ways for rice and idli. My go to dish is sambar always. My grand mother used to prepare best sambar recipe. My mother picked it from her and right now I am caryying the legacy. I think is the the authentic sambar recipe, I ever picked. We call them with different names like carrot sambar, drustick sambar etc., as the name goes the vegetable also. But sometimes I prepare mixed vegetable also.
We have to prepare sambar powder to make the sambar for rice. We can prepare it well in advance and keep it available. Summer is the best season for preparing powders like sambar powder and rasam powder. We can prepare them and store them for a minimum period of 6 to 8 months. I will share the recipe of sambar powder also with you and share the link here.
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Preparation Time: 20M
Cooking time: 15M
Servings: 6

Sambar is the most important side dish in South Indian cuisine. Sambar is a lentil based stew cooked with toor dal or pigeon pea and tamarind broth.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Toor Dal/Pigeon Pea
• 1/2 cup Tamarind Juice
• 3 or 4 Carrot
• 1 Onion
• Salt to Taste
• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 3 tbsp Sambar Powder
• 1 tbsp Oil
• 1 tsp Asafoetida
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
• 1 Red Chilli
• 5 to 7 Curry Leaves
• Fistfull of Coriander Leaves

Ingredients for Sambar Powder:

• 3 cups Coriander Seeds
• 3 cups Red Chillis
• 1/4 cup Toor Dal
• 1/4 cup Urad Dal
• 1/4 cup Chana Dal
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
• 1 tsp Fenugreek Seeds

Procedure for Sambar Powder:

Mix all of them and sun dry for 4 to 5 hours.

If Sun dry is not possible, dry rost them on high flame for a minute.

Once they cooled, make a fine powder.

Keep it in an airtight container.

Procedure for Sambar:

1. Slice the onion lengthwise.
2. Peel and cut the carrot into cubes.
3. Soak tamarind in water for half an hour and extract juice.
4. Keep it aside.
5. Soak toor dal for half an hour and pressure cook for 3 whistles.
6. Mash the cooked dal and keep it aside.
7. In a pressure cooker add slice onions, cubed carrots.
8. Add tamarind extract, salt and turmeric powder.
9. Pressure cook them for 2 whistles.
10. Allow the cooker to cool completely.
11. Once it gets cooled, add sambar powder, cooked dal.
12. Bring it to boil for 3 to 5 minutes.
13. Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
14. When they start spluttering add red chilli, curry leaves and coriander leaves.
15. Add the above tadka to the boiling sambar.
16. Let the taste of the tadka sync into it.
17. Transfer the sambar for rice into serving bowl.
18. Serve the sambar recipe with hot piping rice and a spoonful of ghee.