Easy Sambar recipe | Tiffin sambar recipe
Easy Sambar recipe | Tiffin sambar recipe – Sambar is the best combination for dosa, Idli, Kichadi and many south Indian tiffin items. For tiffin, we would need it light, spicy, sour with a pinch of sweet tinge, like the one we get in hotels. Here is my recipe of tiffin sambar.
Some of other sambar recipes are here – Hotel style sambar sadham which is a video recipe, Pumpkin sambar recipe where I have explained an insight on sambar making techniques, kerala style varutharacha ulli sambar, Mixed veg podi sambar which is instant version and very easy to prepare. Also the tomato sambar recipe which is like our everyday menu for dosa/idli
Easy Sambar recipe| Tiffin sambar recipe -Pictorial description
1. Pressure cook Toor dhal and masoor dhal with a pinch of turmeric
If you plan to use potato, pressure cook this along with dhal.
2. Splutter mustard seeds, curry leaves in oil.
3. Add chopped shallots, turmeric powder, and any other chopped vegetables of your choice.and boiled potatoes.
4. Meanwhile, before starting, soak tamarind in little hot water for a while. Filter it and keep it aside
5. Pour the filtered tamarind water into sautéed onion vegetable mixture.
6. Close it with a lid and let it boil for a while. until tamarind water gets darker and starts boiling.
7. Add a pinch of sugar to this. Always adding sugar to any spicy recipes or adding salt to any sweet recipes will make a huge difference to taste…
8. Add three tablespoons of sambar powder.
9. Add boiled dhal to it and close the lid so that the aroma does not go away. Add water and salt as required.
10. Add chopped coriander leaves and a tsp ghee to it and serve hot.
Easy Sambar recipe| Tiffin sambar recipe
Tiffin sambar
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup tur dal
- 1/2 cup masoor dal
- 1 large potato
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 spring curry leaves
- 10-12 nos shallots sliced
- 1/2 no carrot diced
- 1 no drumstick sambar cut
- 1 small lemon sized tamarind
- 1/8 tsp sugar
- 3 tbsp sambar powder
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves
Instructions
- Pressure cook Toor dhal , masoor dhal, potato with a pinch of turmeric
- Splutter mustard seeds, curry leaves in oil. Add chopped shallots, turmeric powder, and any other chopped vegetables of your choice.and boiled potatoes
- Meanwhile before starting, soak tamarind in little hot water for a while. Filter it and keep it aside
- Pour the filtered tamarind water into sauteed onion vegetable mixture.
- Close it with a lid and let it boil for a while.until tamarind water gets darker and starts boiling.
- Add pinch of sugar to this. Add three tablespoons of sambar powder.
- Add boiled dhal to it and close the lid so that the aroma does not go away. Add water and salt as required.
- Add chopped coriander leaves and a tsp ghee to it and serve hot.
