- Wash toor dal and soak for 1 hr.
- Pour 2 cups water in pressure cooker, add toor dal, turmeric powder and salt.
- Pressure cook for 3 whistles on medium flame. The dal need to be cooked till smooth.
- Scrap the drumstick and chop them in two pieces.
- Peel the shallots and cut into two.
- Now take a cooking pot, add ghee to it.
- When ghee gets hot, add mustard seeds, methi seeds, dried chili, curry leaves and hing.
- When seeds crackle add onion ,ginger and sauté.
- Now add chopped tomatoes, drumsticks, red chili powder, sambhar masala, coriander powder and sauté well.
- When tomatoes get pulpy, add cooked dal to it and add required amount of water.
- Stir it, now add tamarind pulp and salt to it. Stir well and let it boil for few minutes.
- Your Sambhar is ready to be served.
Sambhar is a delicious south Indian soup dish made with lentils and vegetables served with different snacks like idli, vada, dosa etc. A special spice powder sambhar masala is added.
Sambhar
By Foodism Team
Nov, 6th
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Servings
2 persons
Cook Time
45 minutes
Ingredients
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Ingredients
- Toor dal 1 cup
- Tamarind pulp 2 tablespoons
- Shallots 5-6 units
- Drumsticks 1 units
- Tomato(finely chopped) 3 units
- Coriander powder 2 teaspoons
- Red chilli powder 2 teaspoons
- Sambhar masala 1 tablespoons
- Mustard seeds 1 teaspoons
- Curry leaves 5-6 units
- Salt as per taste
- Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoons
- Methi seeds 1/2 teaspoons
- Hing 1/4 teaspoons
- Ghee 2 tablespoons
- Dried red chilli 2 units
Instructions
Notes/Tips
You can also add chopped veggies like carrot, bottle guard to it as per taste and to make it more health.
